Language Expert Answers English Questions

that silent letters exist in English. and the spelling system just hasn't kept up with it. like through and thought and night ...

Master your vocabulary: 10 ancient English words that are still used in conversations

Language is like a living organism, it changes, grow, and evolves over time. And yet, a few words from times long past have ...
The Sun

Old English alphabet has SIX ‘lost letters’ that have vanished from our language

THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six ...
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Using the Dictionary of Old English Corpus for linguistic analyses: A basic classification of the textual sources

The Dictionary of Old English Corpus (DOEC), made available on CD-Rom or online by the Dictionary of Old English Project at the University of Toronto, is the most comprehensive digitized collection of ...
The American Conservative

The Bone-Locker’s Speech

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” ...
The Local

The Anglo-Saxons were more menacing than the Vikings, and the English language can prove it

The Vikings invaded England in the 9th and 10th centuries. They plundered, raped and burned towns to the ground. Or at least, this is the story we know from school and popular culture. But the ...