The Archaic British Dictionary

A random collection of muckles (lots) of words and phrases from Auld English and other lost or obscure leids (tongues) of Britain; Scots, Irish, Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, Yola, Shelta, Norn, Cromarty and Saxon.
updated on twitter @ http://twitter.com/archaicspeech

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

A Fucking History Of Fuck

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We've all heard that hoary old saw when we were kids about how the word "fuck" originally came from from an the term "For...

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Speketh Englysch Thou Scurvy Dogs!

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All those Conservative activists who demand "English Only" laws should have to translate this; "By comyxtioun and mellyn...

Friday, 25 July 2014

Lords Prayer in Norn evolving from 1700 to 1870

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Norn was the Norse language spoken in the Shetland and Orknie Islands in the north of Scotland. It was most closely related to Icelandic. It...

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Cornish To Be Formally Recognized

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FROM THE DAILY MAIL; 'This is a proud day for us': Cornish will be recognized as national minority group for the first time after...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014

It's All Not Greek To Me. But It Might Be Elvish. Or Klingon.

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A recent article in Archeology.org (see below) reconstructs a what the language of inhabitants of Europe might have sounded like. The genera...

Thursday, 8 August 2013

Some Better Royal Baby Names

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Normally I wouldn't bother with royal celebrity gossip but as people were gushing over the royal baby, our future overlord and master, I...

Thursday, 23 May 2013

Muckles of words in the Scots lied;

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Muckles of words in the Scots lied; Auld Lang Syne ~ "Old Long Since" Aye ~ Yes Ba-Heids ~ A pompous ass (pronounce...

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