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

The 13-year-old from Allen, Texas, who lost in a lightning-round tiebreaker last year, outlasted eight other accomplished ...

Antidisestablishmentarianism, everyone’s favorite agglutinative, entered the pop culture lexicon on August 17, 1955, when Gloria Lockerman, a 12-year-old ... English word at 11 letters.

I received a letter in 2012 from Children’s Services. In it they said they believed I was the father of a six-year-old boy. They wanted to talk to ... being raised by a single dad. I’ve had the same ...

In the middle to late 16th century, Mary was the first in line of succession to the English throne after ... identified symbols that represent single letters in the alphabet, common prefixes ...

There are about 30 known Old English runes, deriving from a number of different manuscripts and objects. The runes can indicate single letters or sounds, or represent full words, and many have ...

In parts of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumberland there is a remnant of Old English inflective forms of the definite article – t’ (as in “going t’ pub”). The letter y in terms like ‘ye ...

Afew weeks ago, during a visit to the doctor, I laughed out loud when the online check-in portal suggested Old ... modern English alphabet: the diphthong “æ” (ash), as well as two letters ...

in which she followed the Old English and present German method of thus distinguishing every noun substantive. But the most curious thing about the letter was the total absence of a signature.

Hours after watching her twenty-six-year-old brother die ... that she planned to keep the letters that she’d received from her: “I’ve never kept a single letter all my life—but this ...

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 ...

If any professional sports logo can truly stake a claim to being the unofficial symbol of a city, it’s the Detroit Tigers’ iconic Old English ... styles of the letter, speaks to the fact ...