Weald is (or more accurately, was) the Old English word for ‘forest’. It’s pronounced /wiːld/, started as a West Saxon word and was later assimilated by the Anglian wold and the Kentish wild, both of which are still around today (source, OED Online). Bet you didn’t know that. Well, in addition to being a linguistic fragment of our savage past, Weald is the title of the rather savagely brilliant debut album from Rob St John.
