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“Christmas” is a weird word
Merry Sending of the Smeared One!
Dec 24
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Colin Gorrie
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European languages are exotic
Blame it on the “Dark Ages”
Dec 20
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Colin Gorrie
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Beowulf Book Club 6: 2592–3182
Beowulf and the dragon
Dec 19
•
Colin Gorrie
4
1:44:17
How debt shaped the way we speak
And what it shows about how language works
Dec 10
•
Colin Gorrie
111
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The wild world of grammatical gender
Beyond masculine, feminine, and neuter
Dec 6
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Colin Gorrie
59
10
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Beowulf Book Club 5: 1963–2591
War, war, and more war
Dec 5
•
Colin Gorrie
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1:38:15
November 2025
Why people feel entitled to correct your grammar online
A natural history of the language police
Nov 26
•
Colin Gorrie
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The English language’s wild century
And those who tried to resist it
Nov 22
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Colin Gorrie
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The origin of nothing
Why negative words start with ‘n’
Nov 12
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Colin Gorrie
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39
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How the letter E almost ruined English poetry
Time erodes all things, even Chaucer
Nov 8
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Colin Gorrie
84
9
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October 2025
What is a Hallow, anyway?
The linguistic mysteries of "Halloween"
Oct 29
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Colin Gorrie
178
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How to end a sentence with style
Cadence in English prose from Gibbon to Orwell
Oct 25
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Colin Gorrie
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