English borrows a lot of words from different languages. Words include rendezvous, genre, and even lemon. English is more of ...

The Old Norse liked to talk about wet and windy weather, and clearly had a lot where they came from, judging by the words they introduced: A kenning is a two-word phrase or metaphor, used in the ...

Who knew there were so many words for stream ... like our own. In the North, an old Norse word is used to describe a ravine or the narrow body of water that flows through it: a gill.