Weekly Newsletter

Why ChatGPT writes like that

A rhetorical analysis of AI “slop”

Jul 9 •

How to get started with Old English poetry

Five poems to read that aren’t Beowulf

Jul 2 •

How the Industrial Revolution changed English

Technology and the birth of new dialects

Jun 25 •

Why English doesn’t use accents

And why French is full of them

Jun 18 •

“Dog” is a weird word

Where animal names come from

Jun 11 •

What came before English?

Watch now | The story of Proto-Indo-European

Jun 4 •

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Don’t read Heaney’s Beowulf

The cost of a beautiful translation

May 28 •

The lost letters of the English alphabet

And why they didn't survive

May 21 •

The first English-speaking pope

The lost language of Adrian IV (1100-1159)

May 14 •

The king named ‘Little Daddy’

The linguistic afterlife of Attila the Hun

May 7 •

Never trust your father's brother

Evil uncles from Beowulf to The Lion King

Apr 30 •

Do Americans really speak like Shakespeare?

Who can claim the "real" English?

Apr 23 •

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