It is a question that has intrigued us for as long as humanity has been around. Some ancient myths talk about gods bestowing the gift…
If you have been watching Game of Thrones, then you would have heard the word “wight”. In literature this word is used to refer to…
We live and breathe language. We take it so for granted that we often don’t realise how amazing it is. Even someone who spends most…
Sometimes the simplest words can actually turn out to not be simple at all. We only see them as simple because we use them every…
We have “tall”, “taller”, and “tallest”, “high”, “higher” and “highest”, “big”, “bigger” and “biggest”. Why do we not have “good”, “gooder” and “goodest”? Or rather,…
Languages change over time. Here is the Lord’s Prayer from the King Jame’s Bible Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it…