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The Inglish Language
Strange to say that there might be a spelling mistake in the name of a global language – shouldn’t it be ‘Inglish’?
Apr 29
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Meet English’s Newest Consonant
The slow emergence of a new sound in English speech, and what it evens means to be a sound ‘of a language’.
Apr 16
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The Etymological Problem with Apples
How the humble apple can lead us into the murkiest prehistory of the English language.
Apr 8
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The Armenian Who Learned Greek in Ancient Egypt
Why my (probably) favourite historical document is a unique Armenian text without a word of Armenian.
Mar 24
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Fatal Pronunciation: The Shibboleth Story
How a massacre of Biblical proportions brings ancient texts to life.
Mar 16
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Vltava, Sázava, Mumlava: A Mumble of Voices Almost Lost
Local rivers, or rather just one bit of them, have me reflecting on lost language and the flow of time.
Mar 9
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Monica, Erica, Rita, Tina: Why do so many women’s names end in A?
A pattern among modern women's names gives me an excuse to dig very deep into linguistic prehistory, there to unearth lost grammar and a sense of…
Feb 19
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A Love that Lasts Six Thousand Years
A Valentine's special that tracks the L-word at the centre of it all back into prehistory
Feb 14
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Danny Bate, Wanderer in Language History
Linguist, writer, purveyor of pieces and fun facts on the topics of history, language and language history. Author of the acclaimed new book 'Why Q Needs U'. BA, MPhil, PhD, etc. etc.
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