What did English sound like? An overview of the Mercian dialect of Old English using texts at the time, including Beowulf and others English in early medieval Southwell Tuesday 27th October 2026, 2...

2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

2026. iii, 157 pp. Table of Contents Articles The Ossetic transitive preterite: Typology, evolution, contact Ronald I. Kim | pp. 187–221 The syntactic and semantic promenade of the Spanish absolute construction along the Communicative Continuum: A case of clause linkage in 15th—18th-century translations from Latin Marie Molenaers | pp. 222–271 Ecuadorian Quechua and Quechuan classification Simeon Floyd | pp. 272–326 Musk deer are inherited: The reconstruction of the onset *

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The old work of giants decays. A dragon guards its hoard of treasure. The wanderer locks his thoughts away in an icy heart. A woman longs for her lost wolf. A wife weeps alone within her earth-grave. ...

Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness".

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University Lecturer in Digital Humanities

It’s ‘plausible’, though more likely the Humberside resident was one of many immigrants to Viking-controlled Danelaw

The Charles Dickens Museum today reveals the author's views on summer in the city, his favourite holidays and ingenious efforts to cool off during a hot British summer. Running through September 27, a...

In the 11th-Century masterpiece's tale of a contested throne, virility is equated to power – and the largest and proudest appendage. It tells a story that feels familiar today.

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Archivists discover 17 manuscript fragments from medieval times were repurposed as book covers.

Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’

A survey on attitudes towards accents suggests that so-called "accent bias" is still an issue in many workplaces.

All hail the return of our favorite medieval advice columnist, who is here to get us through the back-to-school season, including helping us dress for photos and pull all-nighters.

Language experts say American English developed naturally as settlers from across Britain and Europe mixed, reducing many regional differences before gradually forming distinct local accents across…

Professor Santiago Disalvo (Universidad Nacional de la Plata): ‘Awareness and references to early medieval English poetry in Spanish-speaking intellectual circles (late 19th and early 20th centuries)’...

Discover the meaning of hwæt, the iconic first word of Beowulf, and explore the medieval and modern debates over how it should be translated.

One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship

Cambridge Core - History of the English Language - The New Cambridge History of the English Language

This volume offers in-depth coverage of varieties of English across the world, outside of the British and North American arenas. It is split into two parts, with Part 1 dedicated to varieties of English across Africa, and Part 2 looking at varieties in Asia, and Australia and the Pacific. There are introductory chapters dealing with the colonial transportation of English overseas, and the generic types of English which resulted, often labelled World Englishes, and examinations of English-lexifie