Following Old English Word Hord @OEWordHoard on Twitter, this Word Of The Day post caught my eye the other day: scēap-heord, f.n: a flock of sheep. Which I misread as “sheep hoard” – an idea so cool, I wanted to keep it. But “sheep hoard” would be “scēap-hord”, and sadly, that doesn’t […]
PENELOPE HEMINGWAY 