Michaelmas term Michaelmas term Michaelmas term is the first academic term of the academic year in a number of English-speaking universities and schools in the northern hemisphere, especially in the United Kingdom. Michaelmas term derives its name from the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, which falls on 29 September. The term runs from September or October to Christmas. The term is also the name of the first of four terms into which the legal year is divided by the Courts of England and Wales and the Courts of Northern Ireland. While the name is not used in the legal systems
English and Welsh including Welsh loanwords and substrate influence found in English, and conversely English loanwords in Welsh. Comparing the Germanic "i"-mutation and the Celtic affection, Tolkien says: In the final part of the lecture, Tolkien explores the concept of phonaesthetics, citing the phrase "cellar door" as a recognized beautiful-sounding phrase in English, adding that to his own taste, in Welsh ""cellar doors" are extraordinarily frequent". Tolkien describes the working of phonaesthetics inherent in the moment of association of sound and meaning: Tolkien alludes to his view that such tastes are inherited, "an aspect in linguistic terms of our individual natures. And since