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Peter Trudgill

01 August 2019

How language has affected your childhood favourite nursery rhymes

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14 July 2019

The lost language of the Canary Islands

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09 July 2019

PETER TRUDGILL: The riddle of the foxglove

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21 June 2019

PETER TRUDGILL: Very valuable varying vowels

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17 June 2019

PETER TRUDGILL: Disasters are all Greek to us

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04 June 2019

The story behind the Norn language

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22 May 2019

PETER TRUDGILL: A macabre word to like

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15 May 2019

The story behind some of the Premier League’s biggest names

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27 April 2019

PETER TRUDGILL: Wales’s very own little England

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08 April 2019

Short-Termism: How our words shrink over time

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05 March 2019

Is there a question mark over the apostrophe’s future?

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11 February 2019

PETER TRUDGILL: Ancient patterns of languages that defy logic

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19 January 2019

The lingering links of Latin

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08 January 2019

PETER TRUDGILL: The birthplace of a language

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29 December 2018

PETER TRUDGILL: Dying echoes of Marathon

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17 December 2018

What’s in a name?

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02 December 2018

PETER TRUDGILL: History behind a trieste toast

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06 November 2018

PETER TRUDGILL: Between us, I’ve had enough of language ‘experts’

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16 October 2018

Racist roots of the word anti-semitism

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02 October 2018

PETER TRUDGILL: How ‘correct’ pronouns has sent language in a peculiar direction

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25 September 2018

How the Minch was pinched

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09 September 2018

Has cheap had its chips?

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03 September 2018

How driving and metric can be traced back to Europe’s despots

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14 August 2018

He Right – There’s no correct way of speaking English

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21 July 2018

PETER TRUDGILL: Just say cheese to get a taste of how languages differ

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07 November 2017

Why a good burgundy comes from further north than you might think

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07 October 2017

A pithy history of the word orange

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03 October 2017

Peter Trudgill: Eureka moment in study of language

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19 September 2017

Peter Trudgill on greetings and eatings throughout Europe

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11 September 2017

From denim to tweed, the fabrics named after places

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03 September 2017

Do you speak saesneg? How about pelekani?

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31 July 2017

This is why Paris is more like Hull than Troy

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