But by way of celebrating St. George’s Day, comedian Gary Slaymaker selects some English words that deserve to make a comeback. One of the more impressive looking old words that has fallen out ...
Well, we’ve got a list of nine old English words you can use instead. But you should probably use these words in a DM, since the person on the other end of the message will need to use Google to ...
M ost people have heard that Christmas is literally the “Christ Mass” of the Christian church, and that Santa Claus takes his ...
We’ve compiled a list of cheeky English words, some of which are so old that they don’t even show up in the Merriam-Webster or Oxford dictionaries any more. That makes them perfect for making ...
There are three main ways of hoarding words in our treasuries — reading, listening and just flat-out making them up.
we can all agree English has become less flowery. Some fantastic vocabulary just dropped out of everyday conversation. Author Mark Forsyth writes about the words we've lost. From his book ...
Nowhere in Old English grammar is there actually a precise ... Now it’s used more than twice as much as any other English word We can’t escape the word ‘the’. If you look at the ...
Whatever their origins, words emerge on the common market of the English language and are taken up or ignored like new products in the store. But not all languages do it that way. Not all ...
In fact, many of the words we use today- like "bedazzled" and "addiction" - were invented by William Shakespeare. But on the flip side, some fantastic Old English vocabulary has dropped out of ...