The wordhord : daily life in Old English /
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful and downright baffling words from the origins of English and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers. Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean Engli...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2022].
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Table of Contents:
- The Language You Thought You Knew
- Eating and Drinking
- Passing the Time
- Learning and Working
- Playing (and More Drinking)
- Making Friends and Enemies
- Caring for Body and Mind
- The World Outside
- Wildlife
- Travel
- Beyond Human
- Searching for Meaning
- Hoarding Words.