I recently went to the last town in the world that still speaks Old English and I was shocked by how much I could speak and ...

To hear linguist Richard Ingham tell it, the double negative wasn’t nothing unusual in the history of the English language. In a revealing study in the current issue of Language Variation and Change, ...

The Dictionary of Old English Corpus (DOEC), made available on CD-Rom or online by the Dictionary of Old English Project at the University of Toronto, is the most comprehensive digitized collection of ...

I went to college a little bit later than most. Excited but nervous to plunge into a degree — in English literature — that demands all students learn Old English, I asked a friend what studying the ...

You’ve probably seen phrases like “Ye Olde Tavern” or “Ye Olde Shoppe” scrawled across English-language signs, trying to evoke a sense of the medieval. But the practice of naming shops this way didn’t ...

There’s a certain state of mind I call crossword brain: It’s both intuitive and counterintuitive, knowing when to turn away from the seemingly obvious solution, but also knowing when to trust your ...