Item, pur escrivyng et enrollynge in Englyshe: From Latin and French to English in the medieval business records of the Grocers of London

Community of Practice in the Mercers of the City of London

“…Relevant differences are noticed in the two guilds diachronically. Despite Figure 1 not illustrating it, an overlooked stage of Latin or French codemixing in financial accounts in English has been recently revealed in my analysis of the Grocers' guild of London during the period 1424-1463(Alcolado Carnicero, 2023. Its non-inclusion in my other analyses of the Mercers' guild of London between 1449-1450 and 1463-1464 has been partly due to the contrasting and misleading conceptions in the literature regarding the phenomenon of language shift in guilds' records (Alcolado Carnicero, 2013, 2015.…”