IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...

You know those word of the day apps to expand your vocabulary? Well, our next guest has an app highlighting words with a twist - like wrath-mod (ph), as in super angry, or lencten-adl (ph), as in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Old English euphemisms for sexual intercourse are difficult to locate because many of them are euphemistically defined in the major ...