Note 51 — FROM THE "PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES."
Reading edition
The word right used, as here, in the sense of very is now considered a vulgarism. "A Southerner would say, 'It rains right hard.'"—Bartlett.
Reading edition
The word right used, as here, in the sense of very is now considered a vulgarism. "A Southerner would say, 'It rains right hard.'"—Bartlett.