Weird Writers of History

If the English language had taken a different path, historians might not exist.

A scribe, probably Bede, from the Life and Miracles of St Cuthbert, English, 12th century. © British Library/Bridgeman Images.

Are historians particularly ‘weird’? It is not as insulting a question as it sounds and some linguistic history will explain why.

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