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How the Industrial Revolution changed English
Technology and the birth of new dialects
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Colin Gorrie
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Could Beowulf see blue?
The history of English colour words
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Colin Gorrie
9
Why English doesn’t use accents
And why French is full of them
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Colin Gorrie
54
“Dog” is a weird word
Where animal names come from
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Colin Gorrie
47
How to reconstruct dead languages
A step-by-step guide
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Colin Gorrie
9
What came before English?
Watch now | The story of Proto-Indo-European
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Colin Gorrie
34
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Don’t read Heaney’s Beowulf
The cost of a beautiful translation
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Colin Gorrie
91
Why English spelling will never make sense
The history of English spelling reform
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Colin Gorrie
12
The lost letters of the English alphabet
And why they didn't survive
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Colin Gorrie
43
The first English-speaking pope
The lost language of Adrian IV (1100-1159)
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Colin Gorrie
16
How the Goths changed the fate of Europe
A guide to Gothic language and history
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Colin Gorrie
4
The king named ‘Little Daddy’
The linguistic afterlife of Attila the Hun
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Colin Gorrie
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