Old English replacement of the letter ƿynn with w. This is a proclamation from King Cnut the Great to his earl Thorkell the Tall and the English people written in AD 1020. Unlike the previous two examples, this text is prose rather than poetry. For ease of reading, the passage has been divided into sentences while the pilcrows represent the original division. The earliest history of Old English lexicography lies in the Anglo-Saxon period itself, when English-speaking scholars created English glosses on Latin texts. At first these were often marginal or interlinear glosses, but soon came to be gathered into word-lists such
Word Is Out (song) Australian 12" vinyl single Word Is Out (song) "Word Is Out" is a song written by English duo Stock and Waterman for Kylie Minogue's fourth album "Let's Get to It" (1991). Produced by Mike Stock and Pete Waterman, it was released as the first single from Minogue's album "Let's Get to It". The artwork for the cover was photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth in 1991 for the British edition of "Esquire". On Michael Wilton's review of the second night of her Anti Tour in Sydney, Australia—where she performed an a cappella rendition of the song—for musicOMH, he stated "Word is