THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six cha… ...

I went to college a little bit later than most. Excited but nervous to plunge into a degree — in English literature — that demands all students learn Old English, I asked a friend what ...

It was borrowed by Old English and Old Norse because the Latin alphabet didn't have a letter for the sound. In English: This used to be an English letter. It and the letter eth (ð) stood for the ...

Letters to the Editor: ... Old English, used in much of present-day Britain before the year 1066, was based on West Germanic dialects with influences of Celtic and Old Norse.

Old English (that is, ... Scribes added a few letters to capture sounds, including æ. It was called “ash” after the Anglo-Saxon rune, writes M. Asher Cantrell for Mental Floss.