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Ten years of teaching English — in language schools, online, and most recently in secondary classrooms in Estonia. CELTA certified, exam-prep obsessed, and endlessly interested in the language itself.

Wild English is the club version of that: small groups, one hour a week, built around films, books, argument, and the strange edges of English rather than a grammar syllabus. We think, we debate, we discover — and we use AI tools properly along the way.

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Wild English · 01

Rare words worth keeping

Noun
petrichor

The earthy smell when rain hits dry ground. Coined by two Australian scientists in 1964, from Greek petra (stone) and ichor, the fluid in the veins of the gods.

Noun
apricity

The warmth of the sun on a cold winter day. Written down once, in 1623, and quietly left out of the dictionary ever since.

Noun
psithurism

The sound of wind moving through trees. From the Greek for whispering — and almost impossible to say without doing it.

Noun · Welsh
hiraeth

A homesickness for a place you cannot return to, or that may never have existed. English has no single word for it, so it borrows this one.

Noun · French
sillage

The scent trail left hanging after someone has walked past. Literally, in French, the wake left by a boat.

Noun
gloaming

Dusk — the hour just after sunset. From Old English glōm, a cousin of glow.

Wild English · 02

Strange places we talk about

Lake Hillier

Western Australia. A lake the flat pink of strawberry milk, all year round, sitting right next to the deep blue Southern Ocean. Nobody is completely sure why.

34.0942° S · 123.2028° E
Socotra

Yemen. Home of the dragon's blood tree — it bleeds red sap and looks like an umbrella turned inside out. A third of the island's plants grow nowhere else on Earth.

12.4634° N · 53.8237° E
Lençóis Maranhenses

Brazil. A desert of white dunes that fills every rainy season with thousands of blue and green lagoons — fish included, arriving nobody quite knows how.

2.5859° S · 43.1044° W
Trolltunga

Norway. A thin shelf of rock that juts 700 metres above a fjord with nothing underneath it but air. The name means troll's tongue.

60.1241° N · 6.7400° E
Wild English · 03

Things about the language

Oxford English Dictionary

The verb set runs to more than 400 distinct senses — the longest single entry in the English language.

Homer

Homer never once calls the sky or the sea blue. The sea is wine-dark; ancient Greek had no fixed word for blue at all.

Icelandic

Icelandic has changed so little in 800 years that a schoolchild in Reykjavík can read the medieval sagas without a translation.

Etymology

Nice has meant foolish, then shy, then fussy, then precise — before it ever meant pleasant. It comes from Latin nescius, "ignorant".

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