2019年7月8日 · The only three Old English words I know referring to prostitutes are meretrix (a direct borrowing from Latin), for-legis (and similar forms, though they tend to also mean adulterer and rarely survived Old English), and miltestre (possibly based on meretrix, which makes it into the Middle English Dictionary as prostitute). All tend to appear in ...

2022年9月23日 · I'm looking for unusual/uncommon words that refer to a period of time. Something like fortnight: (chiefly UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, dated in North America) A period of 2 weeks. But for various different amounts of time like a year, x number of years, x number of weeks, x number of days etc.

2012年2月14日 · Etymology: Probably originally an inflected form of old adj., although subsequently perhaps understood as showing old n. 2 + -en suffix 4. Phrases similar to olden days were common in both Old and Middle English. Old English had the phrase (on) ealdum dagum (compare old adj. 9a), with dative plural ending -um. In Middle English, such phrases ...

From the old letters I reviewed I found several related words: dear, deore and various other different archaic spelling, dearest, beloved(and other more friendly words) and title specific words such as, but not limited to, your highness and your honorable.

2016年1月18日 · I found an old wire recorder that had a wire of recordings loaded on it, which I found contains recordings from the 1950s. The first recording is a telephone conversation, talking about building foundations for a house. I noticed there was a different style of speaking that sounded "of that time period".

2014年4月2日 · Trying to find other phrases like "Having a grand old time" for an ending to our wedding invitation. Thanks so much for your help! -Jordan

2021年5月9日 · I'm three score and thirteen years old, when I was young (in the UK) some still used the count of "score" - mainly for farm produce. The discussion about "score" and where the noun goes is really quite irrelevant as the root of the phrase comes from the Hebrew, changed to "score" thanks to a loose translation of the bible into English.

2020年2月15日 · In technical and common parlance, the phrase "chronological order" indicates that the items are in order of occurrence or creation, oldest first (being the first in the chronology).

2011年2月21日 · I just spent some quality time perusing the Insular and Anglo-Saxon chapters of Michelle P. Brown's A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (pp. 48-49 and 58-59), as well as pp. 34-42 of Marc Drogin's Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique.

2014年8月20日 · old chestnut A stale joke, story, or saying, as in Dad keeps on telling that old chestnut about hgow many psychiatrists it takes to change a light bulb. This expression comes from William Diamond's play, The Broken Sword (1816), in which one character keeps repeatingthe same stories, one of them about a cork tree, and is interrupted each time ...