From: "Christopher Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
> 'dog' itself is a mystery. It starts, apparently, in OE (at least three
> times in the Ancrene Rewle).
The full text of the Ancrene Riwle (Wisse) can be found linked from here:
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm
The TEAMS texts are pretty neat.
[
Though they are mildly post-modern in refusing to provide bog-standard
plain-vanilla texts, so I couldn't do a FIND on "dog".
... easily.
Sad that, but.
:-(
]
R Rodent
... contributing little further to CW's post.
(Though I do so wish that you would source your remarks a bit more fully,
Christopher, even if only backchannel if it seems too boring for the list.
I must have spent at least an hour reverse-engineering your post only to
decide you'd already said it all.
The expense of spirit ...
<g>
R.)
{Is, which is why I began gnawing at Christopher's hound, the early 11thC
Late OE or Early ME?
"dog" occurs for the first time in a English gloss on the Latin "canis"
about then.
A Provoked Pedantic Taxonomist}
PS -- of the three citations of "doggerel" in the MED, one is to Chaucer's
Topas, and the other two are to "Doggerel" as a Proper Name. Just what the
hell that shows, +I+ don't know.
Double Glum
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