You're now allowed to make up a new word, but the person who comments on it gets to give it a meaning. What's your word? : AskReddit. Adam lay ybounden. Single surviving manuscript source of "Adam lay ybounden" in the Sloane Manuscript 2593 held by the British Library. "Adam lay ybounden", originally titled Adam lay i-bowndyn[1] is a 15th-century macaronic English text of unknown authorship. The manuscript on which the poem is found, (Sloane 2593, ff.10v-11), is held by the British Library, who date the work to c.1400 and speculate that the lyrics may have belonged to a wandering minstrel; other poems included on same page in the manuscript include "I have a gentil cok", the famous lyric poem "I syng of a mayden" and two riddle songs - "A minstrel's begging song" and "I have a yong suster".[2] Analysis[edit] Text[edit] Settings[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Image of the Sloane MS 2593 at bl.uk.
Shakespeare in Appalachia? - Smith Mountain Lake. Appalachian Regional Commission Many of the expressions indigenous to this area scan be found in works by some well-known English authors. I must admit I had the common notion that the language of Appalachia (a term used to describe a cultural region in the eastern United States that stretches from the southern tier of New York State to northern Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia) was a distortion of the English language by those who had little or no formal education. It turns out that nothing could be further from the truth. As pointed out by Phillip Hirsh in his book "Voices from the Hollow," the language of the mountains came with the first immigrants who made their way from the middle of the east coast, across Pennsylvania and down the Shenandoah Valley in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
They were a mix of northern English, Scottish, Protestant Irish and Celtics and some Rhineland Germans. The word portly meant handsome, not fat. Some derivations and colorful phrases. If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. & SEXY - StumbleUpon.