This time tracking the endings of words, the fluidity of language and how much it changes becomes clearer and clearer.
All tagged English
Hear Ye!
Words such as “thou” and “thee” sound strange and formal in our ears, but perhaps in losing these antiquated terms, not only have we made English a harder language to understand, but we have lost the ability to express part of the nature of God and His relationship to us.
Anglisizing Лев Николаевич Толстой
What do the many spellings of Leo Tolstoy say about the socio-political and cultural landscapes of 1800s and 1900s Europe? These charts from Google Books might have an insight or two...
Left out Because Internet
The nature of language and communication changed fundamentally with the dawn of texting and social media. In Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch argues that in this new playground of communication there is room for all people to find their place, but is that truly the case?