In addition, Crace authenticates his history by sprinkling his narrative with sparkling mica-like archaisms and quaint dialectal variations – ruddocks and dunnocks pick at grain, damsons are scrumped, ...

Words that are not ill sounding may nevertheless be considered ugly because they are abbreviations, Americanisms, archaisms, clichés, colloquialisms, fads, literary words, mispronunciations, ...

They are so sanctimonious that there’s a perverse pleasure in seeing the many ways this brilliant thinker found to write awkwardly: with archaisms (“I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp ...

Anatolian languages, including Hittite, are the oldest branch of the Indo-European tongues to split away, uniquely preserving some of the linguistic archaisms lost in all other branches.

The translators, we are told, have aimed at a “timeless” English, something which would be genuinely English in idiom, avoiding archaisms and passing fashions of the day, readily understood by ...

Heavy metal has never looked as directionless as it did in 1995. Keith Kahn-Harris looks back to a genre close to dissipating ...