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Monthly Archives: September 2015
A humorous account of how language began by Akira Okrent
http://mentalfloss.com/article/69007/how-did-language-begin
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The author of this novel uses Old English to create a fictional “shadow tongue” which a modern audience can read.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/the-wake-by-paul-kingsnorth.html?_r=0
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Paleography pays off
A Stanford scholar has discovered that the version of the Magna Carta in Salisbury was in fact not written — as previously assumed — in the Chancery in London, but by a local scribe. This finding has consequences for how … Continue reading
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