Peter Trudgill

18 April 2021

How our words turn whiffy

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10 April 2021

The slow death and recent revival of the Cornish language

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28 March 2021

Not a real language? You’ve Scot to be joking

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21 March 2021

The evolution of Joseph Stalin’s mother tongue

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14 March 2021

The language of leaping to conclusions

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06 March 2021

The season that didn’t always spring to mind

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27 February 2021

How Robert Maxwell had such a way with language

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17 February 2021

The Swiss secret that could keep Britain together

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12 February 2021

Aussie accents on the march

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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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