On Jan 19, 1:06 pm, "Chess One" wrote:

**And is one? This is simple historical naivety and subject to fadism of
writers. For 300 years school kids were taught that Chaucer doesn't scan,
but it does! We merely found out beginning 1986 that those line endings,
especially in words ending 'e' can, like in French, add another syllable.

P Innes is about two centuries behind the times. People knew Chaucer
scanned in the 18th century. But news travels to Cornwall slowly....