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Why the word “mead” shows up in Chinese
This healing and honeyed draught of mead, deign to accept from me. Set it first to thy lips (1910), Arthur Rackham
Didao, State of Qin, 250 BC.
Frost still lay on the ground when Heng began his work, but it had melted by mid-morning. By t...
Why we love 19th-century writing
And why we don’t write like that anymore
In recent weeks, several people have mentioned to me (quite unprompted) just how much they love Victorian writing. I must confess that I agree with them.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Book Club 4. 1998–2530
The games come to an end
This is a recording of the fourth and final session of our Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Book Club.
When will Modern English end?
Detail from Eadwine Psalter (c. 1160)
AD 1155, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
The light of a late winter afternoon reaches feebly through a cloister window. The light is thin, but it is enough to illuminate the work of the elderly monk as...
There’s no such thing as g-droppin’
That apostrophe is a lie
On the 3rd of June, we dined at the house of Mr. Uppington, a stationer lately removed to Cheapside, who had, by the enviable combination of industry and frugality, raised himself to a state of respectable ease, a...
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