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Originally Posted by BookCat
It might help if you get a version of The Canterbury Tales which has the original text on the left page and the translation on the right. I had to study such a text for two of the stories when I did A level lit. Seeing the translation against the original helps to develop knowledge of middle English.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I think I'll try to get hold of 'The Universal Dictionary of the English Language' as mentioned in a response to a more recent post.