What does the “were” in werewolf mean? It comes from an Old English word “wer” which means “man” so it actually makes sense. A “werewolf”…
Once long ago there were a group of people known variously as the Saxons, Angles, Jutes and Franks. We don’t know what they called their…
A long time ago, in the Bronze Age, there were a group of people living in Scandanavia. These people would eventually become the Germanic people.…
When you are very small you hear the words “dog”, “cat”, “house”, “car”, “mom”, “dad” and just assume that it has always been like that.…
There is a change that happened in some West Germanic languages that has obscured the relation between a whole set of words. I would like…
Modern English is a rather strange language. It is a basically a train wreck between Anglo Saxon (also known as Old English), Old Norse and…