Talk:fonne

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RFV discussion: July–November 2016[edit]

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Obsolete spelling of fon, which itself failed RFV, see Talk:fon. - -sche (discuss) 21:28, 11 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

It's glossed as Chaucer which is of course Middle English. The Wikisource edition of The Reeve's Prologue and Tale has a hit for the singular and the plural, and not a scanno for sonne either in this case. "[M]en will us fonnes call" (men will call us fools). Renard Migrant (talk) 10:22, 13 July 2016 (UTC)Reply