Abstract The present contribution discusses the phonological reality of initial fricative h- in words Germanic and French origin dialectally identified 106 texts from Innsbruck Corpus Middle English Prose (Markus 2008), with focus on native where is frequently mute, as confirmed by (a) h -less spellings like ouse for house or especially (b) use article an before -nouns. In early a phrase may te...

Salivary gland choristoma of the middle ear cavity is a very rare condition. These lesions are a result of a defective embryonic development and their adjacent structures may be associated with abnormalities. Here we report a case of salivary gland choristoma of the middle ear who presented to Be'sat Hospital, Tehran, Iran in 2015 with unilateral conductive hearing loss. There are 41 case repor...

IN late medieval England, the number of persons literate in the vernacular was growing rapidly.' The same interest in self-improvement which led these people to learn to read also led them to seek out, or to sponsor the production of, works that would make available to them knowledge from both antique and earlier medieval sources knowledge to which as yet, for the most part, only those who coul...