Peter Trudgill

31 January 2021

The vocabulary of the Vikings

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29 January 2021

The Welsh that went around the world

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23 January 2021

The words that went their own ways

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15 January 2021

How the English language slipped up when it came to spaghetti

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09 January 2021

The watery connection linking Johann Sebastian Bach and Rupert Brooke

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02 January 2021

The arrival of English in Australia… and how long after the accent appeared

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19 December 2020

Why neither noel nor yule took off in Britain

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12 December 2020

What’s a wassail?

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06 December 2020

Ignorance about language leaves me lost for words

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19 November 2020

Ignorance about language leaves me lost for words

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12 November 2020

The rhyming links behind many common surnames

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05 November 2020

How everything became ‘okey dokey’

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05 November 2020

How the English could get let behind in the global race

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30 October 2020

Antarctica, the continent with no language

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22 October 2020

Armenia’s linguistic ancestry – and its links to Europe

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15 October 2020

How to put a place to a name

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08 October 2020

A fishy tale of long lost sounds

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02 October 2020

Europe’s influence on how we report the weather

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23 September 2020

The European twists on English surnames

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21 September 2020

The Americanisation of our education institutions

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10 September 2020

A hat-trick for Pakistan

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03 September 2020

How a 16-year-old became a language lynchpin

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29 August 2020

How young children learn their native language

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13 August 2020

PETER TRUDGILL: Where does ‘banter’ come from?

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06 August 2020

Peculiar plurals – the words which break the rules

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30 July 2020

How the Native American’s influenced the English language

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25 July 2020

Bawdiness of the Bard – The possibly rude origin of Shakespeare’s surname

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17 July 2020

Portmanteaus deconstructed: a guide to blended words

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10 July 2020

How being ‘quite wrong’ can have a different meaning to Americans

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07 July 2020

A brief history of Irish colonialism

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25 June 2020

Peter Trudgill: Where did ‘English’ come from?

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18 June 2020

An ‘istory of dropped aitches

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