A Thousand Years of English in One Post: Where Do You Get Lost?

A Thousand Years of English in One Post: Where Do You Get Lost?

Whitby at night, John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893) (Public Domain) How far back can you go before English stops feeling like… English? The Dead Language Society created a fascinating experiment: a fictional travel blog that rewinds the English language by 100 years at a time. It begins in modern, early-2000s blog style, then gradually shifts into the language used in the 1900s, 1800s, 1700s, and beyond, moving through Early Modern English, Midd…