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Colin Gorrie

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Linguistics PhD | Old English | Middle English | Latin | Old Norse | Helping you speak the languages of your ancestors | Start your journey below 👇

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Think Americans butchered English? Think again. Many “Americanisms” that sound wrong to British ears are actually ghosts of older English. Forms Shakespeare himself might recognize. Here’s the story of the English that died in England — but lives on in America 🧵

Think Americans butchered English? Think again. Many “Americanisms” that sound wrong to British ears are actually ghosts of older English. Forms Shakespeare himself might recognize. Here’s the story of the English that died in England — but lives on in America 🧵