I know there are many, many issues with the world. But, the MIDDLE ENGLISH DICTIONARY IS DOWN. Help! #medieval #medievalsky #middleenglish
January 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I know there are many, many issues with the world. But, the MIDDLE ENGLISH DICTIONARY IS DOWN. Help! #medieval #medievalsky #middleenglish
Who's up for a challenge? Some 16th-century Middle English handwriting is proving quite difficult to decipher, as part of our historical context study of CUL MS Dd.15.25, a 15th-century Horae. Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated! #Paleography #BookofHours #MiddleEnglish
February 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Who's up for a challenge? Some 16th-century Middle English handwriting is proving quite difficult to decipher, as part of our historical context study of CUL MS Dd.15.25, a 15th-century Horae. Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated! #Paleography #BookofHours #MiddleEnglish
Unpublished Tolkien Translation of a Medieval Text Brought to Light www.medievalists.net/2026/08/unpu... #MiddleEnglish #Tolkien
Unpublished Tolkien Translation of a Medieval Text Brought to Light - Medievalists.net
A previously unpublished translation by J. R. R. Tolkien sheds new light on his extensive study of medieval English literature and language.
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August 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Unpublished Tolkien Translation of a Medieval Text Brought to Light www.medievalists.net/2026/08/unpu... #MiddleEnglish #Tolkien
“Stag farts”
Here’s a lovely song, lovingly performed in Middle English, and the thing I notice the most is stag farts. Because I am eternally in 7th grade.
#farts #middleenglish
Here’s a lovely song, lovingly performed in Middle English, and the thing I notice the most is stag farts. Because I am eternally in 7th grade.
#farts #middleenglish
May 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“Stag farts”
Here’s a lovely song, lovingly performed in Middle English, and the thing I notice the most is stag farts. Because I am eternally in 7th grade.
#farts #middleenglish
Here’s a lovely song, lovingly performed in Middle English, and the thing I notice the most is stag farts. Because I am eternally in 7th grade.
#farts #middleenglish
Longing for Homeland (Middle English circle 1200 AD) (Remastered)
Listen and make your own on Suno.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
September 28th: The outdated word for today is "girdelstede," meaning "waist" (literally "the place where the girdle lives.")
Pronunciation (I think): gir-DELL-sted-EH.
Source: Tolkien, J.R.R. (1922.) A Middle English Vocabulary. Clarendon Press (Oxford).
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
Pronunciation (I think): gir-DELL-sted-EH.
Source: Tolkien, J.R.R. (1922.) A Middle English Vocabulary. Clarendon Press (Oxford).
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
September 28, 2026 at 10:19 AM
September 28th: The outdated word for today is "girdelstede," meaning "waist" (literally "the place where the girdle lives.")
Pronunciation (I think): gir-DELL-sted-EH.
Source: Tolkien, J.R.R. (1922.) A Middle English Vocabulary. Clarendon Press (Oxford).
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
Pronunciation (I think): gir-DELL-sted-EH.
Source: Tolkien, J.R.R. (1922.) A Middle English Vocabulary. Clarendon Press (Oxford).
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
August 25th: The outdated word for today is "offrinke," meaning "offering."
Pronunciation (I think): off-RINK-eh.
Source: Anonymous. (Late 1200s.) Kentish Sermons from the Laudian Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
Pronunciation (I think): off-RINK-eh.
Source: Anonymous. (Late 1200s.) Kentish Sermons from the Laudian Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
August 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
August 25th: The outdated word for today is "offrinke," meaning "offering."
Pronunciation (I think): off-RINK-eh.
Source: Anonymous. (Late 1200s.) Kentish Sermons from the Laudian Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
Pronunciation (I think): off-RINK-eh.
Source: Anonymous. (Late 1200s.) Kentish Sermons from the Laudian Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
Habent sua fata libelli: How the Middle English Dictionary Came to Be, by
@ricutz.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/06/midd... #MiddleEnglish #MedievalStudies
@ricutz.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/06/midd... #MiddleEnglish #MedievalStudies
Habent sua fata libelli: How the Middle English Dictionary Came to Be - Medievalists.net
Discover the forgotten story behind the Middle English Dictionary and the scholar who started it all—Ewald Flügel, a German philologist whose ambitious vision helped shape Middle English studies.
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June 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Habent sua fata libelli: How the Middle English Dictionary Came to Be, by
@ricutz.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/06/midd... #MiddleEnglish #MedievalStudies
@ricutz.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/06/midd... #MiddleEnglish #MedievalStudies
#poet #poets #poetry #poems #poetrybooks #poetryjournal #poetrypress #litjournal #litmags #poetryjournals #oldenglish #middleenglish
Give me all the follows.
Give me all the follows.
November 18, 2024 at 1:41 AM
#poet #poets #poetry #poems #poetrybooks #poetryjournal #poetrypress #litjournal #litmags #poetryjournals #oldenglish #middleenglish
Give me all the follows.
Give me all the follows.
I am now morally required to dig out my Chaucer and post solely in pig-MiddleEnglish.
Prof: We know you used AI to write you your grant proposal.
Tech Bro: How could you tell?
Proposal: He that his pens wol putte in this lab, he shal have multipliyng of his grayn.
Tech Bro: How could you tell?
Proposal: He that his pens wol putte in this lab, he shal have multipliyng of his grayn.
January 8, 2024 at 5:48 PM
I am now morally required to dig out my Chaucer and post solely in pig-MiddleEnglish.
So! Progress report. Here's the opening of stanza 70 of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in my translation. #poetry #alliterative #epic #MiddleEnglish #poem #SirGawain #GreenKnight #medievalsky #folklore #alliterativeverse
May 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
So! Progress report. Here's the opening of stanza 70 of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in my translation. #poetry #alliterative #epic #MiddleEnglish #poem #SirGawain #GreenKnight #medievalsky #folklore #alliterativeverse
Listen to @taylorpineiro.bsky.social try some #middleenglish in our #chaucer episode!
Also, @headliner.app can we get a direct post button for #bluesky please?
Also, @headliner.app can we get a direct post button for #bluesky please?
February 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Listen to @taylorpineiro.bsky.social try some #middleenglish in our #chaucer episode!
Also, @headliner.app can we get a direct post button for #bluesky please?
Also, @headliner.app can we get a direct post button for #bluesky please?
September 12th: Today's outdated word is "strucyo," meaning "ostrich." This is from the Latin "strūthio," meaning "stork."
Pronunciation (I think): STROOK-yo.
Source: Tolkien, J.R.R. (1922.) A Middle English Vocabulary. Clarendon Press (Oxford).
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
See you Monday!
Pronunciation (I think): STROOK-yo.
Source: Tolkien, J.R.R. (1922.) A Middle English Vocabulary. Clarendon Press (Oxford).
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
See you Monday!
September 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
September 12th: Today's outdated word is "strucyo," meaning "ostrich." This is from the Latin "strūthio," meaning "stork."
Pronunciation (I think): STROOK-yo.
Source: Tolkien, J.R.R. (1922.) A Middle English Vocabulary. Clarendon Press (Oxford).
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
See you Monday!
Pronunciation (I think): STROOK-yo.
Source: Tolkien, J.R.R. (1922.) A Middle English Vocabulary. Clarendon Press (Oxford).
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
See you Monday!
The Differences between Old English, Middle English and Modern English https://www.medievalists.net/2023/08/the-differences-between-old-english-middle-english-and-modern-english/ #history #oldenglish #middleenglish #english
The Differences between Old English, Middle English and Modern English - Medievalists.net
The most noticeable difference between older forms of English and today’s English is the alphabet.
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September 20, 2024 at 9:34 PM
The Differences between Old English, Middle English and Modern English https://www.medievalists.net/2023/08/the-differences-between-old-english-middle-english-and-modern-english/ #history #oldenglish #middleenglish #english
Bruh! ppl are so simple mided, do they even know #demure isn't a new word creation its from #MiddleEnglish!?
#UGHHHH ppl basic asf!
#UGHHHH ppl basic asf!
August 22, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Bruh! ppl are so simple mided, do they even know #demure isn't a new word creation its from #MiddleEnglish!?
#UGHHHH ppl basic asf!
#UGHHHH ppl basic asf!
March 25th: The outdated word for today is from Middle English. It's "halydam," a noun meaning "holy object."
Source: Tolkien, J.R.R. (1922.) A Middle English Vocabulary. Clarendon Press (Oxford).
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
Source: Tolkien, J.R.R. (1922.) A Middle English Vocabulary. Clarendon Press (Oxford).
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
March 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
March 25th: The outdated word for today is from Middle English. It's "halydam," a noun meaning "holy object."
Source: Tolkien, J.R.R. (1922.) A Middle English Vocabulary. Clarendon Press (Oxford).
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
Source: Tolkien, J.R.R. (1922.) A Middle English Vocabulary. Clarendon Press (Oxford).
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish
June 1, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Yeeeeeee Farya Faraji hath endelich his owen versioun of Miri It Is imaked, riȝte whanne ich on souȝte! youtu.be/L9X83dDmlx4
#langsky #middleenglish
#langsky #middleenglish
Mirie It Is While Sumer Ilast - English Medieval Song
YouTube video by Farya Faraji
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November 29, 2024 at 5:50 AM
Yeeeeeee Farya Faraji hath endelich his owen versioun of Miri It Is imaked, riȝte whanne ich on souȝte! youtu.be/L9X83dDmlx4
#langsky #middleenglish
#langsky #middleenglish
New episode of the #Register -Podcast #sfb1412 is online! About #Adjectives, #MiddleEnglish and register variation diachronically observed. With Artemis Alexiadou @zasberlin.bsky.social und Tom McFadden
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#linguistics
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#linguistics
February 10, 2024 at 4:39 PM
New episode of the #Register -Podcast #sfb1412 is online! About #Adjectives, #MiddleEnglish and register variation diachronically observed. With Artemis Alexiadou @zasberlin.bsky.social und Tom McFadden
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#linguistics
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#linguistics
This was such a mindfuck! I tapped out at 1200s. How far did you get? www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba... #language #words #english #middleenglish #oldenglish
How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change
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February 27, 2026 at 1:10 PM
This was such a mindfuck! I tapped out at 1200s. How far did you get? www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba... #language #words #english #middleenglish #oldenglish
Happy April 1st! No joke: All this month we'll look at words from "The Canterbury Tales." This is because of its famous first line: "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote..."
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish #ChaucerianEnglish
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#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish #ChaucerianEnglish
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April 1, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Happy April 1st! No joke: All this month we'll look at words from "The Canterbury Tales." This is because of its famous first line: "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote..."
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish #ChaucerianEnglish
(1 of 3)
#OutdatedWords #MiddleEnglish #ChaucerianEnglish
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#medievalsky #middleenglish In one of the M theses up for viva tomorrow, Elizabeth de Burgh complains about a forced exchange of lands and "she adds that Gower was significantly less valuable than Usk" 🤣🤣🤣
Testament 1 - Confessio 0
Testament 1 - Confessio 0
July 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#medievalsky #middleenglish In one of the M theses up for viva tomorrow, Elizabeth de Burgh complains about a forced exchange of lands and "she adds that Gower was significantly less valuable than Usk" 🤣🤣🤣
Testament 1 - Confessio 0
Testament 1 - Confessio 0