Enjoyed this NYT Magazine article on the virtues and possibilities of Old English; especially the of kenning; the mashing of two nouns to create a new one (blood / bodies). It reminds me of Robert Penn Warren inventing words when he need one.
1/10/19 P.S. Cool beans! I dropped off a copy of this article to our MS ELA teacher this morning and he said they had just been looking at antique compound words!
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