When air is forced through the speech organs producing audible friction, a Fricative Consonant sound is being made.

When a sound is produced in a basically open mouth cavity with a slight obstruction, the sound produced is a: sonorant consonant.

Why it is said of The Canterbury Tales that it presents a cavalcade of fourteenth-century English life? Firstly, a cavalcade is a procession of people travelling on horseback, just as the pilgrims did. Secondly, all sections of 14th century society were represented in Chaucer's cavalcade: nobility, clergy, merchants, common people, men and women.

Captain Cook discovered Australia for England.