The Doctor Who Invented a Writing System
The Day a Volcano Silenced a Language
How a Priest’s Lisp Changed a Language
The Telegram That Named a Country
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker
How a Fish Got Into the Telephone
The Chart That Mapped Our Vowels
The Loneliest Song: The 52-Hertz Whale
“Hello World”: The Birth of a Coded Ritual
The Forbidden Experiment: Feral Children
The Novel That Made Pidgin Literature
The Campaign to ‘Speak Good English’
The Man Who Mapped India’s Languages
The Fairy Tale Behind ‘Serendipity’
A Study in ‘H’: The London Docklands Story
The Teachers Who Invented Scientific Speech
A Computer Learns ‘Amo, Amas, Amat’
The Keyboard That Looked Like a Piano
The Scholar Who Built a National Epic
The Sound Forged by Fire: Welsh’s ‘LL’
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The Doctor Who Invented a Writing System
Discover the forgotten story of Dr. J. W. P. Davis, a Liberian doctor who invented a unique writing system for…
The Day a Volcano Silenced a Language
In 1815, the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora didn't just cause a "year without a summer" across the globe; it…
How a Priest’s Lisp Changed a Language
The famous ‘th’ sound in Castilian Spanish is often attributed to a lisping king whose court mimicked his speech. This…
The Telegram That Named a Country
The name "Pakistan" is famously an acronym for the homelands of Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, and Sindh. But a fascinating, debated…
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker
Ever wonder why so many English surnames sound like old jobs? This dive into linguistic history reveals how surnames like…
How a Fish Got Into the Telephone
Why is the Finnish word for 'fish' (kala) so similar to the Hungarian word (hal), despite being spoken 1,500km apart?…
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