Proto Indo European is the grandfather or great grandfather of English (depending on how you count). This means that we can trace elements of Modern…
Languages are messy. They borrow words from each other, have irregular verbs and their spelling systems can sometimes do with a bit of work. Writing…
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.…