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Weirdos during the Depression
BuyTo Kill a Mockingbirdfrom Bookshop.org(with kickback)(without kickback)Lately I've been rereading To Kill a Mockingbird. There's an episode in which the kids meet Mr. Dolphus Raymond, who is drunk...
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You can learn to read Middle English
In a recent article I quoted this bit of Middle English:Ȝelde ȝe to alle men ȝoure dettes: to hym þat ȝe schuleþ trybut, trybut.and I said:As often with Middle English, this is easier than it looks at...
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More about Middle English and related issues
Quite a few people wrote me delightful letters about my recent article about how to read Middle English.CorrectionsPaul Bolle pointed out that in my map, I had put the “Zeeland” label in Belgium....
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The two-bit huckster in medieval Italy
The eighth story on the seventh day of the Decameron concerns a Monna Sismonda, a young gentlewoman who is married to a merchant. She contrives to cheat on him, and then when her husband Arriguccio...
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Middle English fonts and orthography
In case you're interested, here's what the Caxton “eggys” anecdote looked like originally: 123456789101112 In my dayes happened that certain marchaȗtes were in a ship in tamyse for to haue sayled ouer...
View ArticleMalicious trojan horse code hidden in large patches
This article isn't going to be fun to write but I'm going to push through it because I think it's genuinely important. How often have you heard me say that?A couple of weeks ago the Insurrection Act of...
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Geeking out over arbitrary boundaries
Reddit today had this delightful map, drawn by Peter Klumpenhower, of “the largest city in each 10-by-10 degree area of latitude-longitude in the world”:(Click to enlarge.)Almost every square is a kind...
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