“Fear My dictionary informs me that the word “fear” comes from the Old English word faer, which is related to the word… — Ly de Angeles Copy Share Image
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“In Old English, thou ( thee, thine , etc.) was singular and you was plural. But during the thirteenth century, you started… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“Old English poetry also contained a wide range of conventional poetic diction, many of the words being created to allow alliterative patterns… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“When Winston Churchill wanted to rally the nation in 1940, it was to Anglo-Saxon that he turned: "We shall fight on the… — Robert Lacey Copy Share Image
Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM,… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
My dad was a proper old English gentleman, even though he was from the Caribbean. He used to stand up and salute… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“Cabinet is a conscious, explicit attempt to portray the Doctor himself as myth. “He’s a mischief, a leprechaun, a boojum,” says one… — Jessica Burke Anthony Burdge Kristine Larsen Copy Share Image
“Honeymoon, a term we are all familiar with, is a specific reference to mead. The term comes from an old English tradition… — Pamela Spence Copy Share Image
“Old English poetry is characterised by a number of poetic tropes which enable a writer to describe things indirectly and which require… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“It's Smith, actually.' Dr Smith smiled, bowing. 'I've remembered that my name is Smith. Almost definitely. Good old English name. Hopefully means… — James Goss Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, for all Cnut’s determination to portray himself as a traditional Old English king, his reign had altered English society dramatically.” — Marc Morris Copy Share Image
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“Spring Pea Tortellini SERVES 8 TO 10 (APPROXIMATELY 80 TORTELLINI) … and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her, from… — Francine Segan Copy Share Image
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature -… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“ Gospel The new grass rising in the hills, the cows loitering in the morning chill, a dozen or more old browns… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Tens of thousands of onlookers gaped in amazement as the shattered British troops marched out of Yorktown and, to the tune of… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“The ruinous deeds of the ravaging foe (Beowulf) The best-known long text in Old English is the epic poem Beowulf. Beowulf himself… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Is It True? English is a really a form of Plattdeutsch or Lowland German, the way it was spoken during the 5th… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and… — Antero Alli Copy Share Image
“Our word “lord” comes from the Old English hlaford, or “loafward,” he who guarded the bread supply — and was expected to… — Ronald Wright 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
