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Peter Trudgill

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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14 October 2019

How Sam Smith’s gender neutrality causes challenges for language

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08 October 2019

Why short is almost always sweet when it comes to language

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26 September 2019

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

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25 September 2019

What happened to Britain’s four ancient languages?

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12 September 2019

PETER TRUDGILL: A not so brief history of time

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08 September 2019

Locating the UK’s language barriers

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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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