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UK. Okay. fine, wherever you are and whatever you're doing as you listen to this. This is episode number 826 and it's called Yiddish words used in English. I was considering calling this English words from Yiddish. In the end, though, I decided I would

emphasize the fact that these are Yiddish words which are used in English.

Okay?

Now we know that English is very broad and diverse language, right?

People often say that English has a massive vocabulary.

And one of the reasons for this is because it's kind of sucked up

lots of words from other languages. You may know the history of the English

language the sort of the most common narrative

for the history of English. In fact I think my dad gave a basic version of it in the

recent episode that we did about his book. The recent one which was called a River Avon

Year that episode we did talk about sort of some of the history of the English

language. But the basic story is that English has sort of developed over the last what 2,000 years or 1,500 years or something

and that English has been influenced by mainly Latin from the Romans and also Latin that came

through the French as well and French of course after the invasion of the Normans in 1066 and they brought French with them of course

Germanic languages from the Germanic tribes of places like what's now Denmark and Germany. They brought

their languages over and you end up with Anglo-Saxon. I mean in terms of chronology it's really Anglo-Saxon and

then French came in with the Norman invasion and then you know over a period of about a thousand years you develop through

middle English to modern English and and so on but English also has taken vocabulary

from lots of other places too.

I talked about this a little bit last year with Fred Iango in his episode that we did.

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