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European languages are exotic
Blame it on the “Dark Ages”
 • Colin Gorrie
The beginner’s guide to Early Modern English
How English emerged from the Middle Ages
 • Colin Gorrie
When did English become English?
Linguistics confronts the "species problem"
 • Colin Gorrie
The strangest letter of the alphabet
The rise and fall of yogh
 • Colin Gorrie
A detective’s guide to English place names
And the hidden history they reveal
 • Colin Gorrie
The Celtic roots of English
If indeed there are any
 • Colin Gorrie
Is Beowulf based on true events?
The real history behind the poem
 • Colin Gorrie
The case for Middle English
It’s not just The Canterbury Tales
 • Colin Gorrie
Modern English doesn’t come from “Old English”
And what it would look like if it did
 • Colin Gorrie
Why you speak more Latin than you think
The Latin words in the ancestor of English
 • Colin Gorrie
How the alphabet began
And some Dead Language Society lore
 • Colin Gorrie
How the Industrial Revolution changed English
Technology and the birth of new dialects
 • Colin Gorrie
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