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Harley Ms 4011 #HarleyMSS

#MiddleEnglish #manuscripts #digitisation British Library

Sumer is icumen in
Lhude sing cuccu
Groweth sed
And bloweth med
And springth the wde nu
Sing cuccu

Written in the #MiddleEnglish Wessex dialect, & copied in a manuscript between 1261 & 1264, this is the earliest known example of polyphony in English. #FolkloreThursday

Sometimes I just like to read the glosses in Middle English lyrics and try to guess what it's about without reading the lyric itself. #medievaltwitter #middleenglish

Today I'll be talking about the multilingual origins of the English lexicon at Università di Verona
#historyofenglish #multilingualism #lexicalborrowing #oldenglish #middleenglish

How old is Old English? Have a look at a timeline from the OEWordhordApp to see English phrases going back 1500 years!
@OEWordhord #OldEnglish #MiddleEnglish #EnglishLiterature #MedievalTwitter @NKJemisin #JaneAusten #Shakespeare #Chaucer #Layamon #Ælfric #Beowulf #Cædmon

#repine #fret #complain #pine #middleenglish #causetostarve #repine s #repine d #wordoftheday #motdujour #paroladelgiorno #wortdestages #words #vocabstagram #etymology #etymologie #etymology gram #etymologicalsiblings #english #tomreadwilson #everydaysaschoolday x

#WhanThatAprilleDay18 NEW Early Middle English journal! @AdrienneBoyarin Dr. Dorothy Kim NyarlathoSteph 🇨🇦𓅓 Chaucer Doth Tweet #makingEME #MedievalTwitter #twitterstorians #MiddleEnglish arc-humanities.org/our-series/jou…

#noisome #smelly #offensivelysmelly #offendingthenose #annoy #middleenglish #hatefulto #noise #nausea #wordoftheday #words oftheday #motdujour #motsdujour #words #vocab #etymology #etymologies #etymologicallyspeaking #homeschool #tomreadwilson #everydaysaschoolday x

“Sir Lancelot is the GOAT” – best headline you’ll read today

#GOAT #Malory #MorteDarthur #medievaltwitter #middleenglish #arthuriana #FolkloreThursday

mythgard.org/academy/morte-…

Dated to 1326, this is the earliest surviving astrolabe in England

It’s currently on display in the gorgeous #becket exhibition British Museum next to a copy of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'

#medieval #astrolabe #science #sky #stars #chaucer #middleenglish

Finally got an actual physical copy of this. #medievaltwitter #middleenglish

'What in the hell is this?'
Old English (right)
French of the Normans (right)
Middle English (left)
#oldEnglish #middleenglish #normanfrench #ealdenglisc #Englisc

#rivel #contractintowrinkles #rivel en #middleenglish #words #wordoftheday 📖 #wordoftheday #motdujour #paroladelgiorno #mots #etymology #etymologie #words ofig #tomreadwilson #everydaysaschoolday x

#low #low ing #moo #low en #middleenglish #bellow #wordoftheday #motdujour #paroladelgiorno #wortdestages #words #lexicon #logophilia #english #tomreadwilson #etymology #etymologie #etymologicalsisters #homeschool #everydaysaschoolday x

Here is the check-in screen at a local urgent care. Who is still speaking old English? Are you on Twitter? 140 rune answers only, please. #MedievalTwitter #writingcommmunity #oldenglish #middleenglish

I read the poetry of #WilliamLangland and #GeoffreyChaucer . But as a society we don't support #MiddleEnglish literature enough. This is really sad.

This is the greatest honour.
#CFP #medieval #digitalhumanities #oldenglish #middleenglish #plenaries Elaine Treharne
La Rioja, Spain, 1⃣4⃣-1⃣6⃣ Sept 2⃣0⃣2⃣2⃣. Submissions: selimsociety.com. Join SELIM.

Movie prep! #TheGreenKnight #Tolkien #Translation #amreading #MiddleEnglish #NewRelease #TheBookWasBetter (it has endnotes 😉)

Happy that my colleague and former student Aino Liira has her #PhD viva Turun yliopisto - University of Turku this Friday: utu.fi/en/news/events… #paratexts #middleenglish

Another #cfp for #IMCLeeds2020 #MedievalTwitter ! If you work on #OldEnglish #MiddleEnglish or #AngloLatin #saints lives, please do consider submitting an abstract for this panel, 'Repurposing Saints in Prose from Medieval England' organised by myself and @AngrySaxonist IMC_Leeds