A series of learner's guides to regional Spanish varieties, covering U.S. Spanish, Panamanian Spanish and Honduran Spanish, with attention to pronouns, phonology, contact with English and indigenous and Afro-descendant influences. It also collects cultural and literary context so readers can understand how each variety reflects its history and communities.
Website: https://www.latinamericanspanish.com/
A weekly newsletter by linguist Colin Gorrie exploring the hidden history of English words and writing conventions, with accessible essays on etymology, usage, and how language works. Readers get well-researched explanations of why everyday words and grammar came to be the way they are.
A personal essay newsletter by a writer who reflects on language, metaphor and climate ideas, often through interviews and close readings of phrases. Issues mix interview material with reflective, idiosyncratic prose about how we describe the world.
A Substack exploring quirky and surprising corners of medieval history, including the Voynich manuscript, medieval handwriting styles, and etymologies of everyday words. Readers get entertaining, well-researched explainers that mix history, art, and language.
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