Cadence in English prose from Gibbon to Orwell| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
Two competing divine etymologies| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
The ancient art of alliterative verse| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
Why you should care about kennings| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
Five poems to read that aren’t Beowulf| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
The cost of a beautiful translation| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
Periodically, paid members of the Dead Language Society meet to read great works from the history of the English language together.| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
Beowulf arrives in Denmark| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
Of monsters and melting swords| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
A lesson in the anatomy of the syllable| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
How English emerged from the Middle Ages| Dead Language Society
How to sound like Shakespeare| Dead Language Society
A history of English “strong verbs”| Dead Language Society
And the hidden history they reveal| Dead Language Society
From Sanskrit grammar to nursery rhymes| Dead Language Society
The fight between Beowulf and Grendel, and more.| Dead Language Society
A guide to composing alliterative verse| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
And some Dead Language Society lore| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
A guided tour through the history of English and its relatives. Click to read Dead Language Society, by Colin Gorrie, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
The history of English spelling reform| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
And why they didn't survive| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
A guide to Gothic language and history| www.deadlanguagesociety.com
And why French is full of them| www.deadlanguagesociety.com