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 ...

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 ...

Old English poetry and language studies encompass a rich tapestry of literary, linguistic, and cultural analyses that illuminate the origins, composition techniques, and social contexts of early ...

The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English, by Hana Videen, (Princeton University Press: May 2022), 296 pages. In October 2021, Merriam Webster added 455 new words to its dictionary, including “amirite” ...

IS AMERICA RUINING English or giving it new life? Most of this old transatlantic debate concerns words. Is elevator an improvement on lift? Why say transportation when transport will do? Sometimes it ...

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