The Old English Wordhord unlocks one medieval word a day, pairing each term with its definition, pronunciation and, often, a ...

Language preserves history in every word. Many expressions we use today have roots stretching back centuries, surviving through everyday speech and evolving in meaning. These old English phrases ...

As the years pass, language evolves. Since the days of Chaucer and Shakespeare, we can all agree English has become less flowery. And some fantastic vocabulary just dropped out of everyday ...

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 ...