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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.
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The dead language tier list
What I learned studying 7 historical languages
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Why people fail at learning languages
And how you can do it better in 2026
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December 2025
“Christmas” is a weird word
Merry Sending of the Smeared One!
Dec 24, 2025
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European languages are exotic
Blame it on the “Dark Ages”
Dec 20, 2025
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Beowulf Book Club 6: 2592–3182
Beowulf and the dragon
Dec 19, 2025
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Colin Gorrie
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How debt shaped the way we speak
And what it shows about how language works
Dec 10, 2025
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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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Beowulf Book Club 5: 1963–2591
War, war, and more war
Dec 5, 2025
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Why people feel entitled to correct your grammar online
A natural history of the language police
Nov 26, 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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The origin of nothing
Why negative words start with ‘n’
Nov 12, 2025
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