Meaning of old English words
December 29, 2021
Although we call the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons Old…
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Saxon words
December 9, 2021
So once upon a time, in the fifth and sixth centuries, the Angles and the Saxons of Schleswig-Holstein (think Germany) invaded Britain and brought…
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Old English words and meanings list
September 20, 2021
To find a list of English words of foreign origin, you can go to Wikipedia. They have a gigantic list of English words from many languages, including:…
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Old fashioned words Dictionary
July 2, 2021
No matter how clever, revolutionary, or poignant, the passage of time can render anything obsolete – even words. Recently, researchers for the…
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Kind old words
May 23, 2021
English has changed a lot in the last several hundred years, and there are many words once used that we would no longer recognize today. For…
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Anglo Saxon English words
May 3, 2021
During the 5th century, Germanic tribes people known as Angles, Saxons and Jutes began to settle in the British Isles. The Anglo-Saxon period…
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Anglo Saxon words in English
March 4, 2021
Where did this meme start, and have the people who spread it really studied the history of English? Let’s go back, way back, before the birth…
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Anglo Saxon words list
January 3, 2021
When the Romans left Britain, the country was divided up into a lot of smaller kingdoms and sub-kingdoms that often fought with each other and…
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Read Macbeth online free
December 14, 2020
Macbeth Tells of a man who is deceived by himself and his wife. The play opens with thunder and lightning and the appearance of three witches-supernatural…
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Old English language words
October 15, 2020
When I say “Old English” what comes to mind? The ornate, hard-to-read script? Reading Beowulf in your high school English class? The kinds of…
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Ed word family list
September 25, 2020
Learning Objectives: Built around words with the short vowel ‘e’, these phonics board games will help children review and practice many two-letter…
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Old words Dictionary
September 5, 2020
There are lots of books with really cool old words that are no longer in standard print dictionaries. Is it all right to use them in writing…
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Old English words Dictionary
April 18, 2020
Old English is the name given to the earliest recorded stage of the English language, up to approximately 1150AD (when the Middle English period…
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Ancient English words
January 29, 2020
If you learn just ten old words this month, let them be these, from Mark Forsyth s The Horologicon: A Day’s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the…
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Old English words list
November 9, 2019
If we all start using them, these words can be resurrected. DURING MY UNDERGRADUATE studies as a Linguistics major, one of the things that struck…
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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…
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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…
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