Hello everyone and welcome to the history of England episode 333, dreaming of

a golden age. Just a quick note to kick off because I have been made aware that I am causing pain

with my use of the pronunciation of the word janto and I suspect there are a load if you

are out there on not on the Facebook group where we discuss this who are probably wincing

every time I say it because I understand that the Spanish would probably say something like

junta or more likely junta they don't quote me or not all of that. However I am using the

English pronunciation advisedly according to various dictionaries, OED, Collins, Mariam,

Webster, on the basis that the word being used is a lone word. It is a derivative of the Spanish

but also from the Latin to join and actually the C in Junktum stayed in as Junkto in English for

most of the 17th century. Anyway, Junkto is unfortunately, I hope you can all live with it.

I must admit actually while we're on it that I get embarrassed when my fellow Brits get high

horsey about the English pronunciation of things and places, you often see it online, I mean

unless you're born here. How on earth are you supposed to deal with words like toaster,

get kubri and what I'm going to cop out by calling clanfair pg? It should all be a bit fun,

no one means to insult anyone. On the other hand we could all be like the Norwegians,

Danes, Swedes and Dutch who I suspect have perfect pronunciation for every language in the

world. They certainly do for English but then we've always realised they set standards we just

can't live up to. Despite all of this by the way, irregardless still not a word, just saying.

So let us turn to John Evelyn. John kept notes about his life in the world around him from the

age of 11 in 1630. He was the sion of a well-off family with 700 acres at Whitten in Surrey. He

didn't record every day in his diary like peeps. Nor was he present in England throughout the

civil wars all the time because he stayed much in Europe until about 1652 going there and coming

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