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Old words

March 14, 2019

Everybody has, on occasion, looked up a word in a dictionary…
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English words Translation

December 24, 2018

I recently moved to the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and as a result, I’ve been trying to pick up German, which is a tricky endeavor…

Medieval English words

November 14, 2018

This month’s word of the month is ‘Lodmanage’, which is a word meaning ‘navigation’, taken from the domain of Shipping. Shipping, particularly…

Old English words and their meanings

August 6, 2018

Changes in meaning are as common as changes in form. Like the latter they can be internally or externally motivated. The equivalent to the paradigm…

Traditional English words

May 18, 2018

And ‘rambunctious’, ‘verily’, ‘salutations’, ‘spiffing’, ‘betrothed’ and ‘bally’ have all followed ‘cripes’ in falling out of fashion. But a…

Skype word art

April 8, 2018

Skype, just like other chat clients, provides a set of hidden emoticons that are quite useful. There are currently 15 hidden smileys/emoticons…

Old time words Dictionary

March 19, 2018

While writing our first book, The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man, we decided to throw a few old-time 19th century…

Cool old English words

December 29, 2017

English changes all the time, often in subtle ways—so it s not surprising that we ve lost many delightful words and phrases along the way. In…

Words in Old English

September 20, 2017

Tip from the Top You have a great advantage in learning to spell a word that has been in English for a very long time. Chances are that the word…

Old English words with meanings

June 12, 2017

People sometimes tell you you’re misusing a word and cite the Latin origin as proof. Don’t fall for the etymological fallacy. What a word means…

Old English words and phrases

March 14, 2017

In 1909, writing under the pseudonym James Redding Ware, British writer Andrew Forrester published Passing English of the Victorian era, a dictionary…

Scarlet Letter no Fear literature

January 11, 2017

Original Text Modern Text Under the appellation of Roger Chillingworth, the reader will remember, was hidden another name, which its former wearer…

Old English list of words

January 3, 2017

In autumn 2013 over pints at their local a group of postgrads from King’s College London pondered what they could do to engage the wider community…

Meaning of word dynamic

December 22, 2016

… the high-tech world is, at heart, a cruel, unforgiving place ruled by the merciless dynamics of the marketplace. —Michiko Kakutani, New York…

Old meanings of words

December 10, 2016

I can only give a very subjective answer, but I’ll start with a few nominations. Most of the words in everyday English have been in (and occasionally…