Dr. Jane Goodall talks about her love of animals, dreaming of growing up to study wildlife, her mother’s encouragement, women not being scientists when she started out, bonding with one chimp in particular named David Greybeard, chimp “language,”

How a cheesy joke from the 1830s became the most widely spoken word in the world.

Thorn, eth, yogh, wynn, ash, ethel, eng, long S & the Tironian et. This video takes you on a tour of the letters we don't use anymore. It'll tell you where they came from and why they disappeared.

Pretty much every other language seems to have grammatical genders... so why doesn't English? Well, it used to. Old English had three genders, meaning there were at least three different ways of saying "the". In this video, I explain how that worked and w...

Who are the San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert? A people that lived in the same way for about 100,000 years up until very recently. These San Bushmen give us a glimpse into the world of our ancestors, the world of hunter-gatherers. For the vast majority o...

Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik, along with a host of other linguists and language experts, takes a look at some of the most interesting and distinct accents around t...

Did you realize how many accents there are in the UK? If you're FROM the UK you might not even have sat down and counted what you know. There are quite a few. Check it out!

Before we decide from a long list of contenders, we'll have to figure out what the word "word" really means...

The English spelling system is a MESS... arguably more than any other language. How did it get this way?

A brief history of English from the Anglo Saxons to Shakespeare