I remember reading that if you wanted to hear Shakespearean English, the best place to go would be rural coastal Virginia. For a long time, this part of the world was small and unchanging and relativ… (View Post)

The Watford Gap is a gap in a range of low hills in Northamptonshire, next to the village of Watford. A less famous Watford that its much larger namesake in Hertfordshire, but a perfectly cromulent W… (View Post)

Yes, 'Vorderman goes full Icke' wasn't one I had on my 2023 bingo card. She's different from Lineker. Lineker just puts out highly conventional BBC opinions. He sounds - to my uns… (View Post)

It was only a few years ago I found out fortnight was in any way endangered, and that Americans find our use of it quaint. Did you know that as well as fortnight (a contraction of 'fourteen nigh… (View Post)

There used to be four words for 'you' in English: you, ye, thou and thee. I think you/ye was formal/plural and thou/thee familiar and singular. (Pleasingly, the CoE referred to God in the f… (View Post)