A standard English accompanies the rise of Chancery
- "Chancery" comes from the word chanal or chapel ofthe king, where the chaplains (priests) kapelan of the court originally spent their time between sen/ices writing the king's letters.
- By the end of 14c, Chancery came to be the place where official documents were produced.
- By the mid 15c, the term came to refer to the national bureaucracy as a whole.
- Chancery English is the Ig ofthe scribes charges with making the official documents of England from about the 1380s to the 1450s.
- These documents illustrate a move towards standardalization of spelling, usage, vocabulary and pronunciation.
- What matters is not the use of individual scribe, but an institutional, or official, set of uses.
- Royal clerks used English for official writing after 1417.
- Chancery is located in Westminster, the administrative seat of government.
- The most important point about Chancery English is that it developed a form of writing that was a standard, irrespective of the speech or dialect of the writer.
- Spelling was standardized without regard for pronunciation.
- The official Ig ceased to represent any living, spoken dialect.
- Writing became truły conventional and arbitrary.
- Chancery was the first standard of writing the English Ig in England.
- The Ig of literaturę started to derive from the Ig of politics.