Write your own Word History!
For every Word History that we use on the website we will send you (via your school) a MultiKultur@ Radio Pen!

Did you know?
If you speak Spanish, Portuguese is relatively short step away, helping you to reach another 170 million speakers round the world.

You could de-code the Russian alphabet within a week.

Are you a budding etymologist? We've done some research into word histories. This kind of research is a branch known as etymology or historical linguistics. Be careful, not to be confused with entomologists. These are experts in insects!

Select a word from the left hand column and veiw it's history!