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...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | Princeton University Press edition. |
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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.
