THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six cha… ...

I went to college a little bit later than most. Excited but nervous to plunge into a degree — in English literature — that demands all students learn Old English, I asked a friend what ...

So, in a word like 'bite' (not a real old-English example, but simpler for exposition) the 'e' at the end would have meant that the word was pronounced bi.te, with two syllables.

Police said the wounded man is a member of the Two-Sixers, a gang that claims territory from the train tracks that shadow Ogden Avenue south toward Piotrowski Park on 31st Street, and from the city… ...

Lord Chesterfield’s advice on business writing, published in 1781, joined a heap of careful and voluminous 17th- and 18th-century attention to business correspondence.

What Happens to English When You Subtract the Letter 'E' One 1939 book written entirely without the language's most common character uses more "G" words and fewer prepositions.

Encyclopædia. Æon. Anæsthesia. What do these words have in common? They refer back to a letter we don’t really use anymore. Today, on the anniversary of Encyclopaedia Britannica’s first ...