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Peter Trudgill

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

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How relationships differentiate from one language to another

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The talk of the Baltic

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What’s behind Britain’s most common surnames?

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When a metaphor is a bit mundane

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Diego Maradona: From foul play to word play

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How languages develop their vocabularies

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Faux-pas? Language’s relationship to the negative

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The Alpine People’s Vote

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‘Broad’ and ‘wide’ – a linguistic mystery

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How Sam Smith’s gender neutrality causes challenges for language

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Why short is almost always sweet when it comes to language

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Absorbing Sorbian: The story of Germany’s Slavic speaking communities

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What happened to Britain’s four ancient languages?

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PETER TRUDGILL: A not so brief history of time

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Locating the UK’s language barriers

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How language has affected your childhood favourite nursery rhymes

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The lost language of the Canary Islands

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PETER TRUDGILL: The riddle of the foxglove

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PETER TRUDGILL: Very valuable varying vowels

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PETER TRUDGILL: Disasters are all Greek to us

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The story behind the Norn language

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PETER TRUDGILL: A macabre word to like

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

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PETER TRUDGILL: Wales’s very own little England

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Short-Termism: How our words shrink over time

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

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PETER TRUDGILL: Ancient patterns of languages that defy logic

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