Oberon "Did Middle English hounds bark with an extra…

The royal hound's belly demands rubbing. Step lively, humans, neglect me not." ~Oberon

— Kevin Hearne

No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus…

— Kevin Hearne

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society, in which…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“pedagogue n. FORMAL or HUMOROUS a teacher, especially a strict or pedantic one. late Middle English: via Latin from Greek paidagōgos, denoting a slave…

— Angus Stevenson

“We closed the deal and moved to New York. Where in fact I had lived before, from the time I was twenty-one and just…

— Joan Didion

A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to…

— Eric Partridge

“To Michael Soule's three C's-cores, carnivores, and corridors-Foreman added "three W's: wilderness, wildways, and my favorite word in the English language, wildeor, which is…

— Mary Ellen Hannibal

I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend…

— Helene Hanff

Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“The language of Shakespeare is the first and lasting affirmation of the great changes that took place in the sixteenth century, leaving the Middle…

— Ronald Carter

“For a moment it seemed that her impeccably impractical education—in which she'd learned about Middle English and Duchamp's urinal and sub-Saharan droughts but had…

— Ralph Sassone

“C'mon. I'll show you." "Thou speakest strange!" Pearl said. "So do thou!" I said. "Thee!" "Thou!" I said.”

— Eileen Favorite

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“Modern Our Father, who is in heaven, blessed be your name. Give us our daily bread today. All three of these languages were rich,…

— John McWhorter