Chaucerian

• “Chaucerian" stanzas are really not so much Chaucer's as Masefield's.”

  A Study of Poetry

• “The readings in old English were done in a very unconvincing "Chaucerian" pronunciation, which would have been incomprehensible to most people.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “Let us close with a Chaucerian saying just as appropriate for highlighting the deluded nature of Inhofe's witticism.”

  The Huffington Post: Edward Flattau: A Sick Joke

• “Those who juggle a subscription to both Heat magazine and Chaucerian Times may wish to peek at The Private Lives Of Medieval Kings Mon, 9pm, BBC4.”

  The Guardian: It's a good week for … Sex and scandal

• “From the literary point of view the book becomes a little formless at the end, but until then it retains its Chaucerian compression.”

  The Guardian: From the archive, 23 January 1959: Lolita and its critics

• “Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs, declared Paul McCartney, back in the days before his own love life turned into a Chaucerian cautionary tale about the follies of age and the wiles of youth and beauty.”

  The Guardian: Sir Paul, you're a credit to your love songs | Stephanie Merritt

• “If you wish to justify an archaic usage, than we should all sfeake and sfell Chaucerian English, to be fair.”

  ‘Different than’ analogy fallacies « Motivated Grammar

• “(Thanks to Chaucerian to alerting me to this article.)”

  Archive 2008-05-01

• “His story would be engaging enough on its own, but despite its Chaucerian title, there are many more stories here than just this widower's tale.”

  The Washington Post: "The Widower's Tale," by Julia Glass

• “Lilly: Your indignity parallels the canon of Chaucerian excrement, in which the body of all mankind -- filthy, selfish, primitive -- obeys the ritual of process and transmutation.”

  Spencer Green: Hannah Montana: The Movie (3rd draft, by Tom Stoppard)

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