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The gags in Office Space aren't anything-goes: They're rooted in what sociology professor Lynn S. Chaucer calls Sadomasochism in Everyday Life: The Dynamics of Power and Powerlessness (the title of her 1992 book).
Similarly, historical lexicography--the vocabulary of Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Richard Rolle of Hampole, the Holinshed Chronicle, etc.--has been relegated to footnotes in student editions or to specialized dictionaries.
In Northamptonshire, Jeremy Seabrook reported in The Unprivileged that his mother would use terms that appear in Chaucer but have long vanished from Received English.
But when they are together, and especially if they constitute a large community, they splice the contents of their languages into new and often unpredictable patterns; this happened in England when Old English and Norman French came together after 1066, giving rise to the Middle English hybrid that was in due course used to such effect by Chaucer and Malory.
314)--"A Chaucer, Not an Echo":