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Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

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After Chaucer,
if I ever read 'ywis' on a wall
in the font I call Medieval-Modern,
I'll know it means 'you know'.

I won't know how to say it right -
ywiss, ywice,
ywiz, ywise or yweace.

But 'y as y-, i-, etc,
was prefixed to verbs indiscriminately',
in my homm* yread I.

'ydo' is 'it's done', 'it's over'.

* dictionary

Douglas Scotney

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Topic(s) of this poem: language,medieval,modern,writing

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After The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue.
* see my poem 'Multi Murderer'.
quote is from my Chambers homm. I've expanded 'past participles' to 'verbs' in general, maybe just in the past.

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