{"id":566,"date":"2007-12-17T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/17\/wulf-to-woolf\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T16:53:00","slug":"wulf-to-woolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Beowulf to Virginia Woolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Library website, which I came across today, has some interesting information about language and writing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/learning\/langlit\/changlang\/writtenword\/writtenwordtimeline.html\">Language and the written word<\/a> section. It tells the story of written English from the Beowulf, the earliest known narrative poem in English, to Virginia Woolf&#8217;s early 20th century novels, with samples of each.<\/p>\n<p>The site also includes recordings of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/learning\/langlit\/sounds\/index.html\">accents and dialects of the UK<\/a>, details of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/learning\/langlit\/booksforcooks\/booksforcooks.html\">cook books<\/a> through the ages, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/learning\/langlit\/dic\/meanings.html\">history of English language dictionaries<\/a>, among other fascinating information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Library website, which I came across today, has some interesting information about language and writing in the Language and the written word section. It tells the story of written English from the Beowulf, the earliest known narrative poem in English, to Virginia Woolf&#8217;s early 20th century novels, with samples of each. The site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}