How Romanian became Britain’s second most spoken foreign language

The Romanian community in the UK is now a million strong, yet while pupils can sit GCSEs in everything from Urdu to ...
The Guardian

From divvy to dinlo: index of insults aims to record Britain’s diverse dialects

University of Sheffield academics hope to create ‘vivid, honest record’ of regional swearwords in act of preservation An idiot wandering the British Isles is sure to be greeted with a colourful volley ...
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How Celtic languages spread across Britain and Ireland: why we need to reconsider the early story

The Celtic languages spoken today – namely Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton – all descend from Celtic languages once spoken across Britain and Ireland in antiquity. While the ...
The Economist

The battle between Scotland’s two national languages

They came to remember the Battle of Culloden of 1746, when the British army crushed the Jacobite rising. The ancient language ...