Weekly Newsletter

Do Americans really speak like Shakespeare?

Who can claim the "real" English?

Apr 23 •

The ancient art of beating about the bush

Why you should care about kennings

Apr 16 •

“She” is a weird word

The mysterious origin of a simple pronoun

Apr 9 •

Why you (kinda) speak like a Viking

Turns out English is a little bit Norse

Apr 2 •

The 1000-year-old riddles we still can't solve

The weird world of the Exeter Book riddles

Mar 26 •

How the Black Death reshaped English

Unearthing the causes of the Great Vowel Shift

Mar 19 •

When poetry didn’t rhyme

The ancient art of alliterative verse

Mar 12 •

The economics of dragon slaying

From ancient myth to modern fantasy

Mar 5 •

When English worked like Latin

And how it all fell apart

Feb 26 •

Where monsters come from

Every fiend has a family tree

Feb 19 •

The invention that ruined English writing

Because it came 25 years too early

Feb 12 •

Beowulf and other losers

Or, why everyone loves an ugly duckling

Feb 5 •

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