Language, Linguistics & Onomastics

Many SCA people use the term "smalls" to refer to children, as in "I was busy looking after my smalls so I missed the tournament." Many other SCA people find this usage irritating, and say things such as "Smalls were, in period, underclothes -- not children." This article attempts to clear up the confusion and find out if "smalls" was used in period, and if so, what it really meant.

Useful articles on creating appropriate names for different cultures.

This site contains resources for students of Old English at the University of Virginia and elsewhere, including texts and exercises, informatio n about Introducti on to Old English, the new textbook by the creator of this web site (with a link to the free on-line version), and links to a selection of on-line resources.

This site contains details of most alphabets and other writing systems currently in use, as well as quite a few ancient and invented ones. It also includes information about some of the languages written with those writing systems, multilingual texts, tips on learning languages, a book store, some useful phrases in many different languages, and a ever-growing collection of links to language-related resources.

Devoted to the origins of words and phrases, or as a linguist would put it, to etymology.