I recently went to the last town in the world that still speaks Old English and I was shocked by how much I could speak and ...

“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 ...

Old English poetry and language studies encompass a rich tapestry of literary, linguistic, and cultural analyses that illuminate the origins, composition techniques, and social contexts of early ...

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 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 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 ...

IS AMERICA RUINING English or giving it new life? Most of this old transatlantic debate concerns words. Is elevator an improvement on lift? Why say transportation when transport will do? Sometimes it ...