A NORTHERN PRONUNCIATION IN CHAUCER, SKELTON, AND SPENSER.

The article discusses the character of the Northern speech in the works of English poets Geoffrey Chaucer, John Skelton, and Edmund Spenser, with particular focus in the area of pronunciation. Topics discussed include the pronunciation, morphology, and lexicon in the Reeve's Tale, the third story told in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," pronunciation of words with e spellings in Skelton's "Why Come Ye Nat to Courte?" and the word heme in Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender."