You’ve probably seen phrases like “Ye Olde Tavern” or “Ye Olde Shoppe” scrawled across English-language signs, trying to evoke a sense of the medieval. But the practice of naming shops this way didn’t ...

The Dictionary of Old English Corpus (DOEC), made available on CD-Rom or online by the Dictionary of Old English Project at the University of Toronto, is the most comprehensive digitized collection of ...

Fred C. Robinson, the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor Emeritus of English, died at home in New Haven on May 5. He was 85 years old. Fred C. Robinson Robinson was renowned as a philologist gifted at ...