Tag: history
Word of the Day: Quiddity
Today’s Word of the Day is quiddity, a word that means “the quality that makes a thing what it is; the essential nature of a thing; a trifling nicety of […]
Word of the Day: Clue
Today’s word of the day comes courtesy of The History of English Podcast by Kevin Stroud (https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/). Mr. Stroud began his podcast in June of 2012, and it has continued […]
Word of the Day: Repine
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the Merriam-Webster dictionary website, is repine, a verb meaning “to feel or express dejection or discontent” or “to long for something” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day). According […]
Word of the Day: Noodge
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the Oxford English Dictionary, is noodge. If you look up the word on www.dictionary.com, you will learn that it is just a variant […]
Word of the Day: Supercilious
Today’s word of the day, thanks to dictionary.com, is supercilious, an adjective that means “haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.” According to www.etymonline.com, the word […]
Word of the Day: Weal
Today’s word of the day, from the Mirriam-Webster dictionary website, is weal. By itself, it is pretty much an obsolete word, but we might have heard it in the expression […]
The 1979 Revision of the Book of Common Prayer and the Superchurch: How the Church Deals with Change
Tyler Fuller The current version of the Book of Common Prayer saw its final revisions and establishment as the authoritative book of the Anglican Church in 1662. To this day, […]
The Preservation of The English Language
The language of English had to fight for its right to stay relevant through many trials and tribulations. From fighting off barbarians and looters to the backlash faced from […]
Survival of the Fittest: How English Took Over The World
Marshall Tankersley You don’t want to run into English in a dark alleyway. Granted, there aren’t many things you’d choose to run into on the dank cobblestones of a darkened […]
King Alfred’s fight to save English.
In Melvin Bragg’s ‘The Adventure of English’ we see a lot of different accounts of the trials and tribulations of the English language as well as a number of […]
Learning the Language–Dr. Schleifer Educates Students on the History of English
Amanda Platz On October 31, 2018, Dr. Paul Schleifer addressed the professional writing class at Southern Wesleyan University, regarding a topic they had recently been learning about: the development of […]
Kings, Queens, and Christianity
When thinking of the Reformation, it is only fair to look at England. The trials in England have a major hand in suggesting religious reform. It was Henry VIII who […]