A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform
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Character amnesia in China
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Where does punctuation come from?!
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“Authentic” is dead. And so is “is dead.”
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The Canterbury Tales, or, how technology changes the way we speak
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Engraving on an almost 2,000-year-old knife believed to be the oldest runes ever found in Denmark
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There's a better English alphabet
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Ten words for other people's children
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Scientists have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark
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World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing
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Beside the point? Punctuation is dead, long live punctuation
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The melancholy decline of the semicolon
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Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
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Why we turn off autocaps and only write in lowercase online
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How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone
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How Bernie Sanders answers a question
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Sweden's Rök runestone reveals inscriptions were as much about climate change fears as they were the history of ancient battles
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Language wars: The nineteen greatest linguistic spats of all time
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Lets get rid of the apostrophe
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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing
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Punctuation that failed to make its mark
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