One month free of the only newsletter I pay for

For the past few months, I've been subscribed for free to a Substack called Dead Language Society.

They finally got me. Last week I upgraded to paid. It's the only newsletter subscription I pay for.

Dead Language Society is about English, as in the language. The history and the structure of English. I find myself reading each post from beginning to end finding myself enlightened. A few recent examples:

The ancient logic of “snuck” ("sneaked" is what the English say, so where did Americans get "snuck"?)
No, Shakespeare didn’t invent those words ("assassination," "eyeball," "obscene," ...)
How far back in time can you understand English? (a story told in progressively older variants of English to show you where the language becomes unrecognizable to modern speakers)

With a paid subscription you get all the articles... and there's a book club. Where you read middle- and old-English texts. In the original. I'm looking forward to joining.

It takes a special kind of perversion, leaning towards masochism, to take pleasure in this stuff.

But if you swing this way, I got 5 free 1-month subscriptions to give out when I signed up for paid.

If you genuinely want one, comment below, and I'll get you one. While supplies last.

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