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May 03

Ideas Illustrated: Visualizing English Word Origins

Colour making sense of the different origins of English words, via Johnson

Apr 12

Johnson on whom

Apr 03

Sound change applier

DIY sound change via Language Hat

Researcher's Findings in the Amazon Pit Him Against Noam Chomsky

Daniel Everett and the Pirahã controversy via Johnson 

Sticklers: Gotta split

The Economist’s Johnson on splitting infinitives

Die or dice?

A sound-change stopped.

Google n-gram and the language of Downton Abbey

Using Google to spot anachronisms

Mar 28

Elegies by Tibullus – review

A new translation of Tibullus

Feb 17

Agatha Christie cut down for language students

Article from the Guardian on simplified versions of Christie classics

Jan 26

Fritinancy: Outlining the Victim

Nice example of how you need to be careful with your punctuation.

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