[Mid] Middle-English Word of the Day - January 21, 2008

Manciple (n.) - purveyor.

Hym boes serve hymself that has na swayn,
Or elles he is a fool, as clerkes sayn.
Oure /manciple/, I hope he wil be deed,
Swa werkes ay the wanges in his heed;

- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury tales (1387-1394)

Pronunciation: /mAnsipl@/

Key
/m/ m in make
/A/ a in father
/n/ n in no
/s/ s in hiss
/i/ i in machine
/p/ p in pepper
/l/ l in lily
/@/ a in sofa

The Middle-English Word of the Day is selected from Mayhew and
Skeat's "Concise Dictionary of Middle English", as found on Greg
Lindahl's website
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/concise/concise.html

The example text was found at the Middle English Collection of the
University of Virginia Library.
http://etext.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/
mideng.browse.html

The approximate pronunciation is determined using Carol Hamill's
Middle English Pronunciation Guide
and noted using upon the ASCII-IPA Standard
http://www.island.net/~hamill/medieval/mepronunc.html
http://www.kirshenbaum.net/IPA/

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