Ever wonder what medieval England looked and sounded like? In Old English, the word hord meant “treasure” and your wordhord was the treasure of words locked up inside you. A delightful new book uses the language of that period to create...
Janine in Charleston, South Carolina, grew up in the little coal mining villages of southwestern Pennsylvania, where her grandparents and parents called slovenly neighbors feather merchants. To her, the term meant trashy or lazy, a label she heard...