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How to pronounce Middle English
A complete guide + audio
Apr 22
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Colin Gorrie
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A bluffer’s guide to etymology
How to guess the age and origin of any English word
Apr 8
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Colin Gorrie
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The age when English could do anything
And why we wouldn't have Shakespeare without it
Mar 25
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Colin Gorrie
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Why English spelling actually does make sense
English spelling is optimal, from a certain point of view
Mar 11
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Colin Gorrie
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Why the worst idea in linguistics won’t die
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is mostly wrong
Feb 25
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Colin Gorrie
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1066 didn't change English (but 1250 did)
How all those French words actually got into English
Feb 11
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Colin Gorrie
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What if Beowulf had been written by Shakespeare?
The Tragedie of Beowulf, Prince of Wethermark
Jan 31
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Colin Gorrie
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Were Old Norse and Old English a single language?
I say hām, you say heimr, let's call the whole thing off.
Jan 17
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Colin Gorrie
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Why people fail at learning languages
And how you can do it better in 2026
Jan 3
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Colin Gorrie
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European languages are exotic
Blame it on the “Dark Ages”
Dec 20, 2025
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Colin Gorrie
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The wild world of grammatical gender
Beyond masculine, feminine, and neuter
Dec 6, 2025
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Colin Gorrie
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The English language’s wild century
And those who tried to resist it
Nov 22, 2025
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Colin Gorrie
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