Talk:oystre

RFV discussion: May–July 2015
I doubt that this was used in early modern English. It’s probably just excluded to reprints. --Romanophile (talk) 07:29, 24 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I see an oystré on line 1406, but Blind Harry was writing in early Scots, not early modern English. I see something in English Renaissance Texts, that might be from Thomas Swynnerton (circa 1540), but can't get a full view on it.--Prosfilaes (talk) 08:16, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Even gets an estimated 10,200 hits. So far they're all either Oystre, which is I think a surname in Danish or something, or Middle English. To me it looks a bit too plausible to not be valid, but I also can't support that with evidence. Renard Migrant (talk) 14:11, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I get more like 1,740. And they're place names or Norwegian or (still) Chaucer or Blind Harry.--Prosfilaes (talk) 01:02, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Added two more cites (for oystres). Vanishingly rare by 1600 though. Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:42, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
 * And the Punch one was written in mockery of Chaucer.--Prosfilaes (talk) 19:22, 25 June 2015 (UTC)


 * RFV-passed. - -sche (discuss) 07:59, 23 July 2015 (UTC)