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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Old English words and Definitions
December 6, 2016
Antidisestablishmentarianism, everyone’s favorite agglutinative, entered the pop-culture lexicon on August 17, 1955, when Gloria Lockerman, a…
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Olden days words
September 13, 2016
Given that NaNoWriMo is almost upon us I thought I’d share a little writing trick that’s helped me heaps. I know you’re supposed to write 1…
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Anglo Saxon words used today
September 1, 2016
HISTORY > OLD ENGLISH (c. 500 - c. 1100) | | | | IMAGE Settlement routes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes (from BBC) More important than the…
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Medieval words Dictionary
August 28, 2016
Back in March this year, we announced that we had saved an important fifteenth-century manuscript from export: the only complete copy of the…
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Olde English words
August 20, 2016
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…
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Funny Old English words
August 8, 2016
The English language has more words than most European languages and while we’re always making up new ones, other go out of fashion and are forgotten…
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Word for old
May 16, 2016
Our culture’s attitude toward age is reflected in the often-pejorative meanings of words synonymous with old and old-fashioned, though some are…
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Old English word meanings
April 5, 2016
My main principle has been to make the book the easiest possible introduction to the study of old-english. The want of an introduction to the…
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List of old English words and meanings
February 29, 2016
Words change meaning all the time — and over time. Language historian Anne Curzan takes a closer look at this phenomenon, and shares some words…
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Words with old
June 29, 2015
We’ve all been talking about 😂, but last year’s Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year, vape, is a prime example of our capacity to save ourselves…
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Old fashioned word for you
July 17, 2015
We’re all familiar with contractions. Plenty are signalled by an apostrophe and others don’t hide their origins with any notable ingenuity –…
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Beautiful old English words
November 13, 2014
Medieval Compliments, or, How to call someone beautiful in Middle English This is for the person who found my blog by googling how to say…
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