The Canterbury Tales, or, how technology changes the way we speak
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Historian finds evidence for use of y'all in London from 1600s
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A very interesting video on the phonetics of English regional accents, spoken by a polyglot in the accents
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The history of the boycott: How one Englishman’s name has ended up in every dictionary since 1888
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The tiny US island with a British accent
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The melancholy decline of the semicolon
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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
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"Cymru am byth!" – How speaking Welsh became cool
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How British Sign Language developed its own dialects
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A very brief history of the Manx language
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‘Cwtch’: What the most famous Welsh-English word reveals about global dialects
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