{"id":11,"date":"2022-10-29T08:35:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T08:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2022-11-10T08:27:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T08:27:44","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabahead.com Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At Vocabahead, we don\u2019t just want to teach you new words \u2013 we aim to explain where<br>incredible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/11-words-with-unexpected-origins\/\">words came from<\/a>, how language changes, and what makes some words <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/9-hardest-words-to-spell-in-the-english-language\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"8\">especially tricky<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English was originally spoken between the mid-5 th and 7 th centuries AD when Anglo-Saxon<br>migrants travelled to the British Isles. Since then, the language has constantly changed and<br>developed as it has spread around the world and as other cultures have settled in what\u2019s<br>now the UK. In our blog, you\u2019ll find very new words, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/7-popular-words-that-didnt-officially-exist-before-2000\/\">very old words<\/a>, and some that have<br>changed over time. You\u2019ll also find some unexpected facts about words that will change the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>way you look at language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps you\u2019re looking to expand your vocabulary. Maybe you\u2019re keen to understand why<br>and how languages change. Either way, when you explore our blogs, you\u2019ll pack your brain<br>full of weird and wonderful word facts. You\u2019ll find some topics you expect, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/30-words-and-phrases-that-shakespeare-gave-us\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"16\">Shakespeare<\/a><br>and Latin \u2013 and some that you won\u2019t, like how Xerox machines changed our language and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/12-words-that-come-from-place-names\/\">how denim jeans got their name<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Vocabahead, we don\u2019t just want to teach you new words \u2013 we aim to explain whereincredible words came from, how language changes, and what makes some words especially tricky! English was originally spoken between the mid-5 th and 7 th centuries AD when Anglo-Saxonmigrants travelled to the British Isles. Since then, the language has&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vocabahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}