English old words
September 24, 2015
In 1905, the Oxford University Press published the sixth and final volume of The English Dialect Dictionary, a compilation of local British words…
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Old English words for your
June 8, 2015
The OED has a lot to say about thou, pron and n¹. Here is just a very small bit of that: History of use of forms In Old English, the inherited…
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Anglo Saxon words and meanings
August 31, 2015
The vocabulary of Englisc during the Anglo-Saxon period (from 449 through 1066 AD) was mostly Germanic in origin, with reluctant borrowings from…
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Common Old English words
August 16, 2015
The list below presents some 500 Old English words which could be regarded as literary core vocabulary. Some of the words are among the most…
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