Dr Danny Bate

@dannybate.com

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Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK. Website: dannybate.com Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk Pic: J. Kovalík

The front of the medieval Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Lübeck, built from brick, with ornate towers
A Roman stone altar with a Greek inscription (RIB 3151), image from the RIB website: https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/3151
The 'Skinner meme' from Hot Fuzz, showing a character smiling just like his official portrait behind him
A screenshot of scratched-out fake titles for a second book by me, from 'Why Q Needs U 2' to 'Schwa-shank Redemption'
Transcription of an Etruscan epitaph, four lines of black text, written from right to left, taken from Wikimedia Commons
Me, standing outside a large tent, talking to Paul McGann, seated
A screenshot of an advert for an author talk with me at Hart's Books, with the date, time, ticket price and method of booking
Close-up of a map showing part of Norfolk, labelled "Mersheland"
Three stone memorials, with texts in Czech or German, two with human figures, built into a white wall
A long open box full of strawberries
Me, on stage in front of a colourful painting, speaking at the Tedx Bratislava event
Screenshot of a presentation structure, with the ordered sections: Prologue: Prehistory C: Ye Actually Olde Englishe H: 1066 and All That A: Stuck in the Middle in Yogh L: The Very Model of a Modern English K: When English Met the World E: English Today and Tomorrow
A Roman tombstone, with two carved figures in the centre and Latin verse on either side
A white flat stone with four lines of red lettering in the Oscan alphabet
A single ink signature on a white page, with one T in thicker writing
An Austrian stone border post, with a capital Ö for Österreich
A play on Mitchell and Webb's Numberwang, with the host of the fictional gameshow enthusiastically shouting "That's Neorxnawang'"
A screenshot of a Time Team podcast episode on Apple: "the archaeology of language"
The 'heavy breathing cat meme' showing a pale chonky cat staring off into the distance, alluding to restrained deep desire
A poster for Barnes & Noble Premium and Rewards members, offering them 25% off for upcoming releases through the code PREORDER25
An island in the middle distance, viewed from higher up, covered in trees and the low-lying ruins of a monastery
A bronze coin from Roman-era Beneventum, with Apollo's head and the text "Benven-tod" on one side, from the Classical Numismatic Group
A meme about languages in the Austro-Hungarian army, based on the film Hot Fuzz, in which a police officer needs two intermediary officers to translate for a civilian
Me and Susie Dent, standing behind a table and smiling for the camera
A 17th-century map of Buda and Pest in German
An advert for a book event involving me and Susie Dent, hosted by Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford
An upside-down brass bell, held by a priest
Poster for a talk entitled "An Author's Guide to: Public Linguistics and Publishing Books" with information and pictures of the four speakers
Screenshot of the etymology of the German word Uhu on the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache website
A side view of the golden Alfred Jewel, with a text around the side that begins "Ælfred mec..."
The final page of a book, with the final line "These acknowledgements were written with tearfully fond memories of our Silver, a prince among cats"
The interior of St George's Church, Reichenau, with rows of coloured murals lining the upper walls of its nave
A central street in Konstanz, Germany, lined with shops and banners hung across
Poster for "An Authors Guide to: Public Linguistics and Publishing Books", an online talk on Zoom, with details of the event on January 27th, and four framed pictures of the speakers
The monument to Dolly Pentreath, a carved grey stone with black text, standing by a graveyard
A snippet of episode 43 of the podcast 'A Language A Love Is...', discussing Italian with Sophia Smith Galer
A wooden model of the Infant Jesus in the manger, smiling and holding his hands behind his head.
A screenshot of the text of Samuel Johnson's dictionary, for the entry for "to ake"
Asset for the book Why Q Needs U as an e-book and audiobook
An advert for a book event in February, with "Danny Bate in conversation with Susie Dent"
Me, in a radio studio, sat opposite broadcaster and writer Michael Rosen
A drawing of the two sides of the Tune runestone, showing its four lines of a runic inscription
A transcription of three lines of the Lindisfarne Gospels, with Latin text and Old English words above
Cheapside in London, a wide street with high buildings, in a damp weather
Sir Stephen Fry, standing outside and smartly dressed, next to me, holding a copy of my book
A old wooden sign that reads "J. H. Storey Cordwainer" hanging on an old building in a narrow alley
An advert for the book Why Q Needs U for £1.99 on Kindle
A white concrete 'trig point' on top of a hill, with the inscription "live for the moment", overlooking the Firth of Forth and the town of North Berwick
A station sign for the Yorkshire town of Keighley
Me, holding and standing next to two piles of books, in a spacious bookshop
The cover of my book, Why Q Needs U, on a red background, advertising "Amazon Black Friday Week Sale"
A replica of the stone with the Cantiorix inscription, standing in the ground next to a slate wall