What's Up With THis

Anthony Esolen on the suffix -TH

Paul-Albert Bartholomé (1848-1928), La Lecture, c.1880-1885

In my History of the English Language course this year at Magdalen College, I introduced my students to the distinction that linguists draw between morphemes that are still active and morphemes that are inert, but that the speakers of a language will still immediately understand.  That's fascina…