Talk:rethor
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- (obsolete) A rhetorician; a careful writer.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- If a rethor couthe fair endite
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Changed to Middle English by User:Simplificationalizer (“changed language to match quote. OED has a quote fr. 1508 but like, come on”). J3133 (talk) 21:06, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- It would be an alt form of rhetor, but OED restricts this spelling to ME only. This, that and the other (talk) 09:36, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
RFV-failed This, that and the other (talk) 02:53, 20 March 2022 (UTC)