The entire history of English in 22 minutes

The incredible way babies learn to talk

A history of mad attempts to fix English spelling

Why do some words just feel gross?

Where did our numbers come from?

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

Is German as bad as people say?

Is English really a Germanic language?

Is there a better alphabet for English?

Grammar rules you can stop sticking to

The worst English phrasebook ever written

Did Shakespeare invent as many words as people claim?

A guide to the alphabet

Are these words "untranslatable" into English?

The invention that broke English spelling

Why we should go back to writing in runes

Where does punctuation come from?!

The origin of every English city's name

Tracing English as far back as possible

The unique Spanish of Gibraltar

The origin of every European country's name

The weirdest things about English

This ruined English spelling

Britain's Celtic languages explained

Old English words we should bring back

Is English just badly pronounced French?

The origin of every US state's name

British country names explained

Words we've ruined.

The world's smallest language

Why E̱NGLISH shoul̆d start ūsing accėnt màrks

There's a better English alphabet.

Wonderful words you should start using

The mysterious case of the "lost positive"

Top 10 words we should steal from German

What dinosaur names literally mean

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

The books deemed too dangerous to read

The world's silliest place names

What makes some languages sound BEAUTIFUL?

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I updated the alphabet. What do you think?

A traveller's guide to Japanese

Medieval words you should start using TODAY

What's a dictionary writer's favourite word?

The weird ways the elements got their names

THE ALPHABET EXPLAINED: The origin of every letter

ANGLISH: English without the 'foreign' bits

Crazy collective nouns & where they came from

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

How anyone (including YOU) can read German

Weird JOB TITLES and their origins

The FAKE words in the dictionary

The cool stories behind our names for traditional trades

OLD NORSE IN ENGLISH: The words the Vikings left behind

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

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

Wonderful words for big numbers

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

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