Posts Tagged ‘English language’

St Bede and the English language

Tuesday, July 29th, 2014

Set among the call centres and storage facilities of Jarrow in the northeast of England is a farm, of sorts. There are pigs, sheep and goats here. Some are ancient varieties, more popular 1,400 years ago than they are today. Like a shaggy-haired pig described my guide, John Sadler, as “half a ton of very Read more