A Gaelic-speaking warrior queen called Aud is central to an emerging theory that Scottish and Irish Celts played a far bigger role in Iceland's history than realised
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The mystery of the world’s oldest billboard
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Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb
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Minneapolis church still holds services in Norwegian – congregation was founded in 1922 at the tail end of a decades-long migration of Norwegians to Minnesota
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The heroic story of the Ukrainian language
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The history of (American) Sign Language
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Greenland offers a roadmap for how to get Inuktut taught in Nunavut's schools
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How China conquered the keyboard
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Someone dead ruined my life ... again. (Tiffany follow-up)
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💖 The tale of Tiffany 💖
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A century ago Ludwig Wittgenstein changed philosophy for ever
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Where does music come from? (An abridged history of music, memory and language)
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Birds: Surprisingly connected etymologies
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A brief overview of popular slang of the 1920s in the US
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In Louisiana, Cajuns are keen to preserve their identity
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The Persian language and what makes it fascinating
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The History of English Podcast
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Spirit scripts: Japan’s mysterious outcast alphabets
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The most gender-switched names in US history
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Navajo code talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories
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X is for…
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The Voynich Manuscript may have successfully been decoded
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10 things I learned about ancient China from studying Chinese characters
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No Spanish allowed: Texas school museum revisits history of segregation
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How Spanish got its ñ - the story behind that "n with a tilde"
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Toadbollock, Dustiberd and Lytillskyll: historian on what names can tell us about everyday medieval life
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A 4,000-year old tale of trade and contraband
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We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything
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The elusive foolproof theory of the origin of language
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How the English failed to stamp out the Scots language
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Occitan, the language the French forbade
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Human language may have evolved to help our ancestors make tools
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How did Americans lose their British accents
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Slice of PIE: A linguistic common ancestor
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