Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English language.

This is Episode 108 on the Move.

In this episode, we're going to look at movement, specifically the movement of people and their

money.

This is a story of conquest and trade and international finance.

These were all important subjects in the late 1200s, and they shaped the English language

by changing the way we talk about money and business.

During this period, the English language acquired lots of new words related to those subjects,

and it gave us a financial vocabulary that we still use today.

So this time, we'll look at people and their money on the move.

But before we begin, let me remind you that the website for the podcast is historyofenglishpodcast.com,

and you can sign up to support the podcast at patreon.com slash historyofenglish.

And as always, you can reach me by email at kevinathistoryofenglishpodcast.com.

Now throughout this podcast series, there have been a few themes that keep popping up.

We've explored the evolution of writing and literacy and education.

Those topics are all interrelated, and they've all contributed to the spread of language.

Another factor that contributes to the spread of language is movement.

Time and again we've seen how languages travel with people.

The Indo-European migrations, the spread of the alphabet, the spread of Latin through

Roman conquest, the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain, all of those events shaped the English

language.

And of course, it was a later movement of people that led to the European conquest of the

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