Goldfinger: the word conjures up images of gold-smothered women, razor-hatted henchmen and giant lasers. It’s the title of the quintessential James Bond story and reflects perfectly the villain’s ...
Just when you think you know your own language, along comes a hellwyrgen. Rob Getz ran across the creature in a 12th-century manuscript, where it was pushing some thieves suffering torments in hell ...
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 ...
The letter F has come in for some close scrutiny lately, thanks to the editors of the Dictionary of Old English (DOE) project at the University of Toronto. Researchers on the renowned lexicographic ...
Justice Antonin Scalia called on using old-time language on Thursday to express his contempt for the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of Obamacare. He called the majority opinion "jiggery pokery" and ...
Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...
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