Peter Trudgill

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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14 June 2020

Paraguay bucks the sombre colonial trend of language loss

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07 June 2020

Tearing up the rule on split infinitives

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28 May 2020

Proto op for ancient tongue

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21 May 2020

The language that is a perfect blend of two others

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17 May 2020

Number five-and-twenty: A fading linguistic practice

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30 April 2020

The many languages of classical music

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25 April 2020

Uncommon Language: How the Welsh and English language differ

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17 April 2020

What’s in a place name?

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08 April 2020

How words disappear, or go into hiding

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19 March 2020

The surnames which seem to indicate nationality

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07 March 2020

Does any language actually make sense?

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29 February 2020

The complex history of language and religion in southeastern Europe

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21 February 2020

PETER TRUDGILL: The colourful code for names

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13 February 2020

The footballing convention that Jose Mourinho often ignores

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29 January 2020

How ‘have’ didn’t hold: The bizarre history of a common word

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12 January 2020

Go forth and diversify – how a rural Ireland dialect still lasts after centuries

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09 January 2020

Modern Greek’s Island story – how the Greek language grew

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19 December 2019

How relationships differentiate from one language to another

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08 December 2019

The talk of the Baltic

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28 November 2019

What’s behind Britain’s most common surnames?

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23 November 2019

When a metaphor is a bit mundane

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14 November 2019

Diego Maradona: From foul play to word play

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10 November 2019

How languages develop their vocabularies

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01 November 2019

Faux-pas? Language’s relationship to the negative

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24 October 2019

The Alpine People’s Vote

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22 October 2019

‘Broad’ and ‘wide’ – a linguistic mystery

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