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Beowulf Book Club 6: 2592–3182
How debt shaped the way we speak
The wild world of grammatical gender
Beowulf Book Club 5: 1963–2591
Why people feel entitled to correct your grammar online
The English language’s wild century
How the letter E almost ruined English poetry
How to end a sentence with style
How iambic pentameter really works
Beowulf Book Club 4: 1396–1962
The beginner’s guide to Early Modern English
What people get wrong about Elizabethan English
When did English become English?
Sing, sang, sung and other linguistic fossils
The strangest letter of the alphabet
A detective’s guide to English place names
No, that word doesn’t come from an acronym
The ancient poetic law that explains basically everything
Is Beowulf based on true events?
Modern English doesn’t come from “Old English”
Why you speak more Latin than you think
How to write poetry like Tolkien
How the Anglo-Saxons learned languages
How to get started with Old English poetry
Dead Language Society Book Club
How the Industrial Revolution changed English
Why English doesn’t use accents
How to reconstruct dead languages
Why English spelling will never make sense
The lost letters of the English alphabet
The first English-speaking pope
How the Goths changed the fate of Europe
Never trust your father's brother
The strange death of English ‘R’
Do Americans really speak like Shakespeare?
The ancient art of beating about the bush
Why you (kinda) speak like a Viking
The 1000-year-old riddles we still can't solve
How the Black Death reshaped English
The economics of dragon slaying
When English worked like Latin