You’ve probably seen phrases like “Ye Olde Tavern” or “Ye Olde Shoppe” scrawled across English-language signs, trying to evoke a sense of the medieval. But the practice of naming shops ...

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… ...

DID you know that the 26 letters of the alphabet which form the basis of the English language can be rearranged into more than half a million words? Or that English is spoken by a sixth of the ...