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Colin Gorrie
Personal blog · colingorrie.com/articlessciencewriting
Colin Gorrie's personal blog at colingorrie.com covers science and writing. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Colin Gorrie's Old English graded reader, Ōsweald Bera, a story with no modern English beyond vocabulary. Commenters say meaning becomes clear as you read on.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bringing linguistics out of the ivory tower. Plus conlanging, language learning, and Old English.
Most-linked posts?
- /books/osweald-bera/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-21
What Hacker News says?
For those interested in learning old English, I’ve been going through Oswald Bera by Colin Gorrie - https://colingorrie.com/books/osweald-bera/ Basically it’s a full blown story/graded reader with no modern English apart from vocabulary. You build an understanding of the language as you read the book and what is initially gibberish becomes quite clear as you progress . It does help if you’ve had a lot of exposure to…
Comment linking /books/osweald-bera/
on “New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome”Submitted The complete guide to vowel inventories (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you want to improve your score, the blog author (Dr. Colin Gorrie) has just the thing: a book which will teach you Old English by means of a story about a talking bear . Here's how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZhlWdVvZfw . Your dream of learning Old English has never been closer: get _Ōsweald Bera_ https://colingorrie.com/books/osweald-bera/ today.
Comment linking /books/osweald-bera/
on “How far back in time can you understand English?”