“Modern Our Father, who is in heaven, blessed be your name. Give us our daily bread today. All three of these languages… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“Oberon "Did Middle English hounds bark with an extra syllable on the end? like 'woofe'?” — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“C'mon. I'll show you." "Thou speakest strange!" Pearl said. "So do thou!" I said. "Thee!" "Thou!" I said.” — Eileen Favorite Copy Share Image
“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… — Ralph Sassone Copy Share Image
“The language of Shakespeare is the first and lasting affirmation of the great changes that took place in the sixteenth century, leaving… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“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,… — Mary Ellen Hannibal Copy Share Image
A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on,… — Eric Partridge Copy Share Image
“We closed the deal and moved to New York. Where in fact I had lived before, from the time I was twenty-one… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“pedagogue n. FORMAL or HUMOROUS a teacher, especially a strict or pedantic one. late Middle English: via Latin from Greek paidagōgos, denoting… — Angus Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society,… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
“Writers in what we now call the Middle English period (late twelfth century to 1485) did not necessarily always write in English.… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Clutter is stuck energy. The word "clutter" derives from the Middle English word "clotter," which means to coagulate - and that's about… — Karen Kingston Copy Share Image
“I told the Kid I thought Wednesday was Latin for Satan, and that we probably shouldn't do it then because it might… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, French culture and language interacted with native English culture for several generations after the Norman Conquest. A common… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
