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Story of English

The wild world of grammatical gender
Beyond masculine, feminine, and neuter
 • Colin Gorrie
Why people feel entitled to correct your grammar online
A natural history of the language police
 • Colin Gorrie
The English language’s wild century
And those who tried to resist it
 • Colin Gorrie
The beginner’s guide to Early Modern English
How English emerged from the Middle Ages
 • Colin Gorrie
What people get wrong about Elizabethan English
How to sound like Shakespeare
 • Colin Gorrie
The Celtic roots of English
If indeed there are any
 • Colin Gorrie
Modern English doesn’t come from “Old English”
And what it would look like if it did
 • Colin Gorrie
How the Industrial Revolution changed English
Technology and the birth of new dialects
 • Colin Gorrie
Could Beowulf see blue?
The history of English colour words
 • Colin Gorrie
The first English-speaking pope
The lost language of Adrian IV (1100-1159)
 • Colin Gorrie
The strange death of English ‘R’
And why it survived in America
 • Colin Gorrie
Do Americans really speak like Shakespeare?
Who can claim the "real" English?
 • Colin Gorrie
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