New posts in historical-change

Why is the letter "c" pronounced like /s/ when it comes before “e”, “i”, or “y”, but as /k/ elsewhere?

Does the term "farm-to-table" as a contemporary food movement derive from early 20th century govt. programs?

What are the origin and history of the forms and meanings of the phrase "top flight"?

What expression was used in English that "however" and others replaced around 1750?

When did spelling "-ic" words "-ick" start/stop being popular?

Freshman or Freshwoman

How would Anglophones judge the rhetoric that was typical of 1600-1900?

Can it ever be acceptable to use singular “they” with a specific referent of known but undisclosed gender?

When did the pronunciation of ‘hierarchy’ change from /hie-/ to /hai(e)-/?

What words does English have more? Romance or Germanic? [duplicate]

Does the archaic prefix wer/wep have modern descendants?

Dropping linking R's from the middle of the words [closed]

Connotative history and recent usage of "Person / People of color"

How many English words are of native origin?

When did English-speakers start and stop using foreign language honorifics? [closed]

Semantic shift in "around"

What happened around 1700 that transformed / changed the English language?

For how long has "plead" been used as a verb counterpart to "plea" (noun) even though both words historically have both verb and noun forms?

Different etymologies for spoken and written forms

The recent invention of the word "heterosexual"