The Canterbury Tales in Middle English with translation, lines 1 to 18

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales in 1392. He wanted to include characters from all over England in his story but he died before finishing it. It is one of the most well known stories in Middle English. The Middle English period ran from the conquest of England by William the Conqueror all the way […]

Words are more connected than you think

When I was growing up, words just seemed random. That was a dog, this was a cat and I just got on with life. It was only much later that I began to notice that the words in other languages seemed strangely familiar. If a word in another language is similar, how did it get […]