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 ...

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The first folio of the heroic epic poem Beowulf, written primarily in the West Saxon dialect of Old English. - Courtesy of the British Library THE English language has had a long and storied history, ...

To English-speakers today, the language in its earliest form — spoken over a millennium ago — seems like straight-up gibberish. But scholars at the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies ...

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 ...