Tha coltas fìor inntinneach air seo!
Reposted from London Review of Books
‘Multilingualism was so ordinary in 14th-century England that not everyone would have had a reliable sense of the boundaries between the country’s different languages.’

John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on the influence of French on medieval English:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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