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Kenning Kompounders: How Anglo‑Saxon Metaphors Shape Modern English
Episode 72
Published 6 days, 23 hours ago
Description
Explore the world of kennings—compact Old English metaphors that still live in our modern compounds—and discover how this ancient compounding logic has kept English flexible and inventive for a millennium.
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