GLOSE BUT NO CIGAR
Lavinia’s Medieval Word of the Week This week’s word is: Glose. Also glōse, gloce, gloise, glous, glos(se) and glọ̄se. What does it mean? According to the Middle English Dictionary, it means: 1. (a) [...]
THE WICKED BIBLE
In 1631, printers Robert Barker and Martin Lucas made a rather serious typographical mistake. The royal printers in London, on their watch, commandment number 4 in the King James Bible [...]