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Peter Trudgill

How driving and metric can be traced back to Europe’s despots

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He Right – There’s no correct way of speaking English

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PETER TRUDGILL: Just say cheese to get a taste of how languages differ

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Why a good burgundy comes from further north than you might think

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A pithy history of the word orange

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Peter Trudgill: Eureka moment in study of language

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Peter Trudgill on greetings and eatings throughout Europe

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From denim to tweed, the fabrics named after places

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Do you speak saesneg? How about pelekani?

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This is why Paris is more like Hull than Troy

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A language known as “bad Hungarian” is severely endangered

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Could “Stay” have stuck better than “Remain” in last year’s referendum vote?

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If only English was as easy to read as other languages

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