Thanks for the link. Here’s an article setting out the thesis that Middle English derived from the dialect spoken in the East Midlands, within the Danelaw, not Wessex-ian Old English and hence has co… (View Post)

Some linguists believe that (middle) English derived at core from Old Norse rather than Old English. Some of the evidence is there in Carnyx’s examples - English adopts the Scandinavian word order ra… (View Post)

For what she's asking as the base price, you'd expect more than merely access to a member's bar and the opportunity to mingle with lots of other loons We can get the latter on here, fo… (View Post)

More wisely, I never went. I remember when the projected visitor numbers for the Dome were put before London Council's Environment Committee, and the projections were quite clearly nonsense, and… (View Post)

The earth's orbit is slightly ovoid, not circular, and the earth moves quicker around the sun when we're in the closest parts of the orbit, in December (and June). Hence this month the eart… (View Post)