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I Tried Speaking “Old English” in the Last Town That Still Speaks It

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 ...
The Scotsman

Discover the Scots Language: What is Scots, why is it called a dialect, and how old is it?

Scots is one of Scotland’s native languages that, despite often being called a dialect, is officially recognised as a language by the Council of Europe and the Scottish and UK governments. Did you ...
Chicago Tribune

Don’t never say never: Double negatives were once common

To hear linguist Richard Ingham tell it, the double negative wasn’t nothing unusual in the history of the English language. In a revealing study in the current issue of Language Variation and Change, ...
The New York Times

Letter of Recommendation: Old English

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 ...
The Sun

Old English alphabet has SIX ‘lost letters’ that have vanished from our language

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 ...