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Word facts and language fun. This is a channel for lovers and learners of English. It'll tell you where the words we use come from and why we say the things ...
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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
18:36
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.
15:10
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
12:36
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)
![NUMPIRE, NAPRON, [N]EWT and other words we're getting wrong](/wkt/back/vi/XBVu4CjYZmo/mqdefault.jpg)
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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?
