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How to end a sentence with style
Cadence in English prose from Gibbon to Orwell
20 hrs ago
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Colin Gorrie
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“God” is a weird word
Two competing divine etymologies
Oct 15
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Colin Gorrie
155
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How iambic pentameter really works
And why it works so well in English
Oct 11
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Colin Gorrie
147
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Beowulf Book Club 4: 1396–1962
Of monsters and melting swords
Oct 10
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Colin Gorrie
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1:41:04
How rhyme works (and why)
A lesson in the anatomy of the syllable
Oct 8
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Colin Gorrie
89
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The hidden logic of nicknames
What “Rob” and “Andy” teach us about language
Oct 1
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Colin Gorrie
112
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September 2025
The beginner’s guide to Early Modern English
How English emerged from the Middle Ages
Sep 27
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Colin Gorrie
81
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What people get wrong about Elizabethan English
How to sound like Shakespeare
Sep 24
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Colin Gorrie
167
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When did English become English?
Linguistics confronts the "species problem"
Sep 17
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Colin Gorrie
105
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Sing, sang, sung and other linguistic fossils
A history of English “strong verbs”
Sep 13
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Colin Gorrie
78
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Beowulf Book Club 3: 916–1396
Enter Grendel's mother
Sep 12
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Colin Gorrie
6
1
1:31:55
“Big” is a weird word
Etymology and the limits of explanation
Sep 10
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Colin Gorrie
122
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