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Beowulf Forever?">How Close Did We Come to Losing Beowulf Forever?

Robert Bartlett on a Vital Work of the Western Canon That Barely Survived Multiple Disasters

By Robert Bartlett | October 10, 2025

No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of

No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of "Ye Olde" in English

Hamlet, and the Evolution of Middle and Old English">Hana Videen on Chaucer, Hamlet, and the Evolution of Middle and Old English

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Month-Disease, Flewsa, Lunations: On the Etymology of Periods

Month-Disease, Flewsa, Lunations: On the Etymology of Periods

Jenni Nuttall Considers the Earliest Written References to Menstruation

By Jenni Nuttall | August 29, 2023

Kempt, Couth, Ruth: On the Disappearing Antonyms of “Grumpy” Words

Kempt, Couth, Ruth: On the Disappearing Antonyms of “Grumpy” Words

Arika Okrent Wonders Why Negative Descriptors Tend to Outlast Their Positive Counterparts

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