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The entire history of English in 22 minutes

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The incredible way babies learn to talk

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A history of mad attempts to fix English spelling

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Why do people think 'cellar door' is beautiful?

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Why do some words just feel gross?

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Where did our numbers come from?

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SPECIAL: Let's just do a nice crossword together.

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Is German as bad as people say?

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Is English really a Germanic language?

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Is there a better alphabet for English?

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Grammar rules you can stop sticking to

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Diaper vs. Nappy

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The worst English phrasebook ever written

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Did Shakespeare invent as many words as people claim?

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A guide to the alphabet

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Are these words "untranslatable" into English?

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The invention that broke English spelling

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Why we should go back to writing in runes

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Where does punctuation come from?!

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The origin of every English city's name

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Tracing English as far back as possible

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The unique Spanish of Gibraltar

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The origin of every European country's name

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The weirdest things about English

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This ruined English spelling

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Britain's Celtic languages explained

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Old English words we should bring back

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Is English just badly pronounced French?

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The origin of every US state's name

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British country names explained

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Words we've ruined.

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The world's smallest language

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Why E̱NGLISH shoul̆d start ūsing accėnt màrks

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There's a better English alphabet.

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Wonderful words you should start using

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The mysterious case of the "lost positive"

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Top 10 words we should steal from German

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What dinosaur names literally mean

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The Latin words you don't know you're using

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The books deemed too dangerous to read

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A language like no other

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The world's silliest place names

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What makes some languages sound BEAUTIFUL?

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Are you getting these phrases wrong too? | EGGCORNS

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I updated the alphabet. What do you think?

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A traveller's guide to Japanese

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Medieval words you should start using TODAY

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What's a dictionary writer's favourite word?

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The weird ways the elements got their names

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THE ALPHABET EXPLAINED: The origin of every letter

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ANGLISH: English without the 'foreign' bits

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One syllable or two?

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We're getting the calendar all wrong

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Blown away by page 1

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Crazy collective nouns & where they came from

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How the months got their names (and what we used to call them)

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How anyone (including YOU) can read German

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The dog mystery.

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The origin of tailor/Taylor

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Weird JOB TITLES and their origins

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When vegetables were meat

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The old word for a female baker might surprise you.

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The FAKE words in the dictionary

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The cool stories behind our names for traditional trades

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OLD NORSE IN ENGLISH: The words the Vikings left behind

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Italians do blue differently

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COLOUR WORDS: The astounding origins of "blue", "black", "orange", "red" & other colors

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The surprising truth about "Ye Olde..."

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MILITARY RANK WORDS: How to say 'lieutenant' and why army hierarchy is all wrong

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Why 🍆 is an EGGPLANT in 🇺🇸 and an AUBERGINE in 🇬🇧

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Satisfying Greek alphabet fact. How did I not know??

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Wonderful words for big numbers

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Weird plurals in English: Men, geese, sheep, knives and many more

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PALINDROMES: The world's longest, oldest & most impressive

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HOW TO USE THOU ...as well as thee, thy, ye & you.

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LOST LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET: 9 letters we stopped using

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Why Brits call farts TRUMPS and other flatulence facts

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The World's Longest Words (English & Beyond)

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Why is a turkey called a turkey?

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Why doesn't English have genders? Well... it did!

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How to translate French words WITHOUT KNOWING FRENCH (3 clever tricks)

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NUMPIRE, NAPRON, [N]EWT and other words we're getting wrong

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Thorough, thought, cough, furlough... Why so many ways of pronouncing OUGH in English?

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Why is there a B in DOUBT? - THE MEN WHO RUINED ENGLISH SPELLING

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Why is there a G in SIGN? The (kind of annoying) reasons some words end with "gn".

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Why is the K in KNIGHT silent? - A guide to words beginning KN & GN

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Why does English have silent letters? - SERIES INTRODUCTION

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French words in English: A brief history

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British & American terms: The Village Tour

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Colour & Color - Why two spellings?