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The history of “-y” in English

When I first learned that English was a Germanic language, I didn’t really know what that meant. English and German seemed nothing alike to me. I wanted to know what it meant to be a Germanic language. English’s history is quite colourful with many of characters and lots of plot developments. The reason Modern English […]

Velarisation and assimilation in Irish (Gaeilge)

I started learning Irish and I wanted to understand velarisation in Irish. Palatilisation and velarisation often assimilate sounds next to them to produce new sounds “edge” comes from Proto Germanic agjō. Over time the /g/ got palatilised and the /jo/ was lost. Palatilisation produces /egʲ/ (and /a/ becomes /e/, seen in “angle-land” becoming “england”) /dʒ/ […]

Skyrim in English and Irish

I made a mod for Skyrim that allows you to play it in English (with Irish in brackets). This way you can learn Irish while playing Skyrim. Get it here https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/106287

Silly Linguistics is looking for writers for monthly articles

For the first couple of issues I just got submissions from people I knew and from people out on the internet. I would like to put a bit more structure in place. Organising the magazine takes quite a lot of time and I have to juggle that with running the page as well as running […]
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