I recently went to the last town in the world that still speaks Old English and I was shocked by how much I could speak and understand. Well okay, it’s not exactly Old English, it’s a rare language ...

The ferry ride to Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, reveals something extraordinary. This remote barrier island, which is accessible only by boat and sits twenty miles off the coast, is home to the ...

To hear linguist Richard Ingham tell it, the double negative wasn’t nothing unusual in the history of the English language. In a revealing study in the current issue of Language Variation and Change, ...

I went to college a little bit later than most. Excited but nervous to plunge into a degree — in English literature — that demands all students learn Old English, I asked a friend what studying the ...