Excited but nervous to plunge into a degree — in English literature — that demands all students learn Old English ... institution in his society in a single word. When his body goes on ...

While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six characters to play around with. They formed part of the alphabet of Old English, the ...

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote an 50,000-word novel without using a single letter e. Wright's Gadsby tells the story of a ...