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

“Ye searching for thine old English name for baby, are ye?” Okay, that’s about the amount of Old English language talk up the sleeves around here. But if you are looking for a more historic English ...

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

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 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” ...

I went to college a little bit later than most. Excited but nervous to plunge into a degree — in English literature — that demands all students learn Old English, I asked a friend what studying the ...

Have you ever traveled to a foreign country and tried out a few quick-studied phrases from Duolingo in an attempt to blend in with the locals? No matter how hard you study, native speakers can peg you ...

The Medieval Institute and Medieval Institute Publications were involved with the publication of Old English Newsletter 29, no. 1 (Fall 1995) through 39, no. 2 (2006), and OEN Subsidia volumes 13 ...