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How homogeneous was Old English spelling?
orthography
old-english
lexicon
Etymology of certain words ending in "-en"
etymology
grammatical-number
old-english
Why is “Saturday” Romanic?
etymology
history
time
old-english
What did Old English writing (letters and formatting) typically look like?
writing
writing-style
old-english
Why did the Old English word "līċ" get displaced by "corpse"?
etymology
old-english
Etymology of “Easter”
etymology
history
old-english
seasons
Did Old English (Anglo-Saxon) use contractions?
contractions
old-english
When and why did the number reading order change [duplicate]
numbers
reading
old-english
Why "English" but not "Anglish"?
etymology
phonology
old-english
historical-change
origin-unknown
Did the Tironian "et" ("⁊") have any impact on the ampersand being shift + 7 on English keyboards? [closed]
writing
old-english
Construction of “woe is me”
idioms
grammatical-case
old-english
be
Was the “Ye Olde Shoppe” ever used or is it just an ancient-looking construct of modern times?
orthography
archaicisms
typography
early-modern-english
old-english
Silent "e" at the end of words
etymology
pronunciation
orthography
old-english
silent-letters
What did we gain in return for the loss of phonemic vowel length from Old English?
old-english
phonetics
middle-english
stress
vowel-length
The “prickmouse” and the “butcher's broom”
etymology
old-english
german
italian
Why did the F of "sneeze" and "snore" change to an S in English history?
pronunciation
phonology
historical-change
old-english
middle-english
Old English instead of Latin in early Britain
history
latin
linguistics
old-english
germanic-languages
"Ph" for the /f/ sound; Is Old English responsible for this swap?
pronunciation
orthography
old-english
Did the "We shall fight on the beaches" speech mainly use words from Old English? If so, why?
etymology
old-english
rhetoric
What were nightmares called before "nightmare" was used in that sense?
etymology
history
early-modern-english
old-english
middle-english
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