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Part I: Gregory of Nyssa, Jerome and Augustine", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2022/07/21/holy-linguists-part-i-gregory-of-nyssa-jerome-and-augustine/", "published_at": "2022-07-21T06:30:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-0689-711a-bd69-f8a04053d432", "title": "An A-Z of the Languages and Loanwords of the English Lexicon – from Arabic to Zulu!", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2022/06/26/an-a-z-of-the-languages-and-loanwords-of-the-english-lexicon-from-arabic-to-zulu/", "published_at": "2022-06-26T17:54:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-0689-711a-bd69-f8a04140af49", "title": "A Thank-You Letter to Twitter Linguistics", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2022/05/29/a-thank-you-letter-to-twitter-linguistics/", "published_at": "2022-05-29T07:54:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-0689-711a-bd69-f8a041903ca2", "title": "A Dictionary of the Divine: The Gods and Goddesses Hiding in Our Words", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2022/04/27/a-dictionary-of-the-divine-the-gods-and-goddesses-hiding-in-our-words/", 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"published_at": "2021-12-18T20:44:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-f89e-7165-888c-3617f0c4c045", "title": "Cheat Your Way to Czech: Czech Sounds and I", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2021/11/21/cheat-your-way-to-czech-czech-sounds-and-i/", "published_at": "2021-11-21T22:47:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-f89e-7165-888c-3617f18614a8", "title": "Latin: Language, Society and Some Sociolinguistics", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2021/10/13/latin-language-society-and-some-sociolinguistics/", "published_at": "2021-10-13T21:28:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-f89e-7165-888c-3617f2535d39", "title": "Grave Language: The Epitaph of Pope Gregory V", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2021/09/07/grave-language-the-epitaph-of-pope-gregory-v/", "published_at": "2021-09-07T09:25:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-f89e-7165-888c-3617f2d250bb", "title": "As Julius Caesar said, “Wehnee, weedee, weekee!”", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2021/08/31/as-julius-caesar-said-wehnee-weedee-weekee/", "published_at": "2021-08-31T21:44:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-f89e-7165-888c-3617f3a4beb9", "title": "You Know More Than You Think About: The Wanderer", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2021/07/20/you-know-more-than-you-think-about-the-wanderer/", "published_at": "2021-07-20T15:45:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-f89e-7165-888c-3617f4654a5a", "title": "You Know More Than You Think About: Beowulf", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2021/06/23/you-know-more-than-you-think-about-beowulf/", "published_at": "2021-06-23T21:44:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-4903-7244-a045-b7f084996d4b", "title": "Grave Language: The Epitaph of Lucius Cornelius Scipio", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2021/05/28/grave-language-the-epitaph-of-lucius-cornelius-scipio/", "published_at": "2021-05-28T19:09:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-4903-7244-a045-b7f0851cd6b1", "title": "Latin’s Nasal Infix: A How-to Guide", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2021/05/16/latins-nasal-infix-a-how-to-guide/", "published_at": "2021-05-16T18:05:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-4903-7244-a045-b7f0852ce334", "title": "Adieu to Covid", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2021/04/21/adieu-to-covid/", "published_at": "2021-04-21T18:28:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-4903-7244-a045-b7f086222bc2", "title": "The Decline and Fall of the Latin Neuter", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2021/03/15/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-latin-neuter/", "published_at": "2021-03-15T17:54:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-4903-7244-a045-b7f086610bf6", "title": "The High German Consonant Shift and How to Use It", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2021/02/20/the-high-german-consonant-shift-and-how-to-use-it/", "published_at": "2021-02-20T19:01:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-4903-7244-a045-b7f08743a670", "title": "From English to Greek in Two Rules", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2021/01/18/from-english-to-greek-in-two-rules/", "published_at": "2021-01-18T15:38:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-4903-7244-a045-b7f0879c3d08", "title": "The Un-mouthing of Sounds", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2020/12/08/the-un-mouthing-of-sounds/", "published_at": "2020-12-08T18:59:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-4903-7244-a045-b7f08895528a", "title": "Re-Reduplication in La-Latin", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2020/11/11/re-reduplication-in-la-latin/", "published_at": "2020-11-10T23:06:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-4903-7244-a045-b7f088fa4905", "title": "Latin Stems: Part II", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2020/10/25/latin-stems-part-ii/", "published_at": "2020-10-25T15:20:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-4903-7244-a045-b7f08904ccdf", "title": "Latin Stems!", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2020/10/15/stems/", "published_at": "2020-10-15T16:16:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-b798-714d-9fa6-917863298aa8", "title": "Walloons, Wales and Cornish Walnuts", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2020/09/21/walloons-wales-and-cornish-walnuts/", "published_at": "2020-09-21T17:16:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-b798-714d-9fa6-9178640dd192", "title": "The Wonderful World of Verb Second", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2020/08/31/the-wonderful-world-of-the-verb-second-rule/", "published_at": "2020-08-31T18:09:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-b798-714d-9fa6-917864ef9d7b", "title": "Learning Czech – My Top Ten Terrors", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2020/07/20/learning-czech-my-top-ten-terrors/", "published_at": "2020-07-20T06:34:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-b798-714d-9fa6-91786582dbc4", "title": "La Joie de Joret", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2020/06/21/la-joie-de-joret/", "published_at": "2020-06-21T15:28:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-b798-714d-9fa6-9178661f0238", "title": "Rhotacism, and How It Can Help Your Latin", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2020/06/20/rhotacism-and-how-it-can-help-your-latin/", "published_at": "2020-06-19T22:20:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-b798-714d-9fa6-917866487e90", "title": "The Economic Sandwiches of York", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2020/06/18/the-economic-sandwiches-of-york/", "published_at": "2020-06-18T07:08:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-b798-714d-9fa6-9178668bc4f7", "title": "The Neuter Gender – A Very Useful Rule!", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2020/06/14/the-neuter-gender-a-very-useful-rule/", "published_at": "2020-06-14T18:53:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-b798-714d-9fa6-917866d61e64", "title": "Introduction", "url": "https://dannybate.com/2020/06/09/introduction/", "published_at": "2020-06-09T14:27:17+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Good King Václavoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2026
The Emperor’s New Lettersoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
Homer’s ABCsoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2026
Sure Sugaroriginal ↗
10 Jul 2026
Did the Philistines Speak Greek?original ↗
3 Jul 2026
What the Isle of Man Teaches Us About Spellingoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2026
Why Q Needs USA!original ↗
2 Jun 2026
Ex- a Weird Old Word Order -ploringoriginal ↗
25 May 2026
The Inglish Languageoriginal ↗
1 May 2026
Meet English’s Newest Consonantoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2026
The Etymological Problem with Applesoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2026
The Armenian Who Learned Greek in Ancient Egyptoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2026
Fatal Pronunciation: The Shibboleth Storyoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2026
Vltava, Sázava, Mumlava: A Mumble of Voices Almost Lostoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2026
Monica, Erica, Rita, Tina: Why do so many women’s names end in A?original ↗
19 Feb 2026
A Love that Lasts Six Thousand Yearsoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2026
An Unexpected ‘Indian’ Language in the Middle Eastoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2026
Greek, the Asian and African Languageoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2026

2025

Cool Etymology: Chilled Jelly and Cold Gelatooriginal ↗
4 Dec 2025
A Voice for the Voiceless: English’s Lost Consonantsoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2025
Sázava and the Consolidation of the Westoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2025
The Silence of the Lettersoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2025
‘Why Q Needs U’ – Out Today!original ↗
2 Oct 2025
Reflections of Triesteoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2025
You Know More Finnish Than You Thinkoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2025
‘Why Q Needs U’ cover reveal!original ↗
28 Jul 2025
The Liquid of the Elbeoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2025
The Most Serene Etymology: English’s Venetian Vocabularyoriginal ↗
4 May 2025
‘Why Q Needs U’: New book due for release in October!original ↗
17 Apr 2025
Introducing: My Czech Word of the Week!original ↗
17 Mar 2025
‘A Language I Love Is…’ returns for Series 3!original ↗
16 Mar 2025
PIE was not SOVoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2025
New Article: ‘Wackernagel’s Law in Vedic and Old Irish’original ↗
10 Jan 2025

2024

A CHRISTMAS Full of Etymologyoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2024
Oneteen, twoteen? The origins of ‘eleven’ and ‘twelve’original ↗
30 Nov 2024
Relics in Roman Writingoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2024
All We Hear is Radio Praha (Unexpected Part 2)original ↗
24 Sept 2024
Verba Bohemica: The Oldest Latin Words in Czechoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2024
The Path of ‘Path’original ↗
23 Jul 2024
Prehistoric Syntax and Public Linguistics with Jackson Crawfordoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2024
Spending Pounds and Pensively Pondering: pend- in Englishoriginal ↗
27 May 2024
Humble Thimbles and Thor’s Thunderoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2024
The Fates of the Dualoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2024
Streets Ahead: When Roman Roads Met Old Englishoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2024
New Article: Deriving the Old Irish Clauseoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2024

2023

A Fond Farewell to 2023original ↗
31 Dec 2023
Christmas Trees and Etymologiesoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2023
Is This [Is] An English Question?original ↗
26 Nov 2023
The Reichenau Glossary and the Birth of Frenchoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2023
Introducing: ‘A Language I Love Is…’original ↗
4 Sept 2023
Five Antiquities of Englishoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2023
All We Hear is Radio Prahaoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2023
Learning English Etymology with Will!original ↗
19 Jul 2023
The Gaulish in English, in 10 Wordsoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2023
What did British Latin sound like?original ↗
17 May 2023
Why does Czech sound like that?original ↗
3 Apr 2023
A Linguist Abroad: Holidaying with Hungarianoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2023
Behind the Scenes of Etymology with YouTube’s Jackson Crawfordoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2023
(Hopefully) Halfway to Doctorhoodoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2023
Bad Romance: An Introduction to the Appendix Probioriginal ↗
21 Jan 2023

2022

Digging Old Irishoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2022
The Almost Romance Languagesoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2022
Journeying into gender with Words for Granted!original ↗
9 Nov 2022
Talking etymology with the Lexis linguists!original ↗
31 Oct 2022
Holy Linguists! Part II: Cyril and Methodius, Ælfric of Eynsham, Hildegard of Bingenoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2022
Five Sound Changes That Make Italian Make More Senseoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2022
Getting to Grips with Greek: Achieving the Alphabetoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2022
Holy Linguists! Part I: Gregory of Nyssa, Jerome and Augustineoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2022
An A-Z of the Languages and Loanwords of the English Lexicon – from Arabic to Zulu!original ↗
26 Jun 2022
A Thank-You Letter to Twitter Linguisticsoriginal ↗
29 May 2022
A Dictionary of the Divine: The Gods and Goddesses Hiding in Our Wordsoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2022
Of Mouses and Mans? — The Origins of English’s Vowel-Swapping Nouns and Verbsoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2022
*ABA – The Goodest Language Universaloriginal ↗
22 Feb 2022
Cheat Your Way to Czech II: Learning (and Loving) the Lexiconoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2022

2021

Rockin’ Around Etymologyoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2021
Cheat Your Way to Czech: Czech Sounds and Ioriginal ↗
21 Nov 2021
Latin: Language, Society and Some Sociolinguisticsoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2021
Grave Language: The Epitaph of Pope Gregory Voriginal ↗
7 Sept 2021
As Julius Caesar said, “Wehnee, weedee, weekee!”original ↗
31 Aug 2021
You Know More Than You Think About: The Wandereroriginal ↗
20 Jul 2021
You Know More Than You Think About: Beowulforiginal ↗
23 Jun 2021
Grave Language: The Epitaph of Lucius Cornelius Scipiooriginal ↗
28 May 2021
Latin’s Nasal Infix: A How-to Guideoriginal ↗
16 May 2021
Adieu to Covidoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2021
The Decline and Fall of the Latin Neuteroriginal ↗
15 Mar 2021
The High German Consonant Shift and How to Use Itoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2021
From English to Greek in Two Rulesoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2021

2020

The Un-mouthing of Soundsoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2020
Re-Reduplication in La-Latinoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2020
Latin Stems: Part IIoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2020
Latin Stems!original ↗
15 Oct 2020
Walloons, Wales and Cornish Walnutsoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2020
The Wonderful World of Verb Secondoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2020
Learning Czech – My Top Ten Terrorsoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2020
La Joie de Joretoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2020
Rhotacism, and How It Can Help Your Latinoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2020
The Economic Sandwiches of Yorkoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2020
The Neuter Gender – A Very Useful Rule!original ↗
14 Jun 2020
Introductionoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2020