CHANCERY STANDARD
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CHANCERY STANDARD, also Chancery English. Present-day terms for the 15c written usage of the clerks of Chancery in London, who prepared the king's documents. Before the 1430s, official records were mainly in Latin and French, but after that date mainly in an English based on the Central Midland dialect, with such usages as
gaf (gave) not Chaucer's East Midland
yaf,
such not
swich, and
theyre (their) not
hir. Until the end of the 15c, Chancery and the Exchequer built a foundation of written English that was developed by
CAXTON when he set up his press in Westminster in 1476. Over the years, printers replaced some features of Chancery usage with London equivalents, such as third person
-s instead of
-th (
hopes, not
hopeth), and
are instead of
be. See
STANDARD ENGLISH.
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