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#13: clepe

6/22/2015

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forbid us a thing
and we humans desire it
I clepe it weakness
ay forbede us thyng
and that desiren we folk
freletee clepe I
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Would I dare consider Middle-English Haiku? Of course I would! The above was a result of reading through parts of "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you want to get into it, look at this site from Harvard: The Geoffrey Chaucer Page.

Wow, Medieval English language is like a foreign language! I forgot how much focus it takes to read it (it's been since junior high or high school!?). 

Don't look for a section on Middle-English Haiku on this site anytime soon. 

This is strange. Building a good vocabulary is one thing... but wondering why the "creators" of Word of the Day keep coming up with archaic terms and words one is quite unlikely to ever use. 

DEFINITION:
  1. verb: Archaic. to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).
    From Middle English, pronounced "kleep." 
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