I've been listening to a podcast called 'The History of English'. In the latest episode it touches on the use of the possessive. In Chaucerian English the possessive was written with an '-es-' suffix, e.g. 'The Milleres Tale'. By the 17th Century, printers were using what I believe is called the ...

In the early 2000s, I heard an audiobook version of a coherent retelling of the classic Robin Hood story. There was a frame story set in the modern world, a boy (I think) staying with his grandmother (?) who survives a massive storm one night and, after picking some berries in the morning, finds ...

In The Magician of Lublin - part five, section 3 - this scene takes place between Emilia and Yasha: "What did you say, dear?" "I said that I love you and that I can't wait until you are mine." She waited a moment. Her knee touched his through the gown. Something like electricity coursed into him...

This is from James Scully's translation of Aias (also known as Ajax), in The Complete Plays of Sophocles, translated by Robert Bagg & James Scully. But for now, O, graze on the fizzy air, be a child, a joy to your mother here. 687-689 I'm not use to seeing "graze" or "fizzy" used like this and ...