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

language.

This time we're going to look at the vast port of Greek words which have found their way

into modern English.

Now I'm not going to look at all the Greek words which have come into English that would

probably take several episodes, but I am going to give you a heavy dose of Greek words

to illustrate the impact of Greek vocabulary on modern English.

But before I begin, let me just give you a quick update on the alphabet series which

I'm working on.

I hope to have that series completed in the next couple of weeks, hopefully by the time

of the next episode of this podcast.

And as soon as it's ready, I'll probably post a mini episode with specific information

about the series and how you can go about getting it and downloading it.

So stay tuned for that.

Now, last time we looked at Greece during the so-called Greek Dark Age and the adoption

of the Phoenician alphabet which led to the spread of literacy and with it the emergence

of Greece from the illiterate Dark Age.

So we're now near the beginning of the period of classical Greece, the period of Greek history

which we all learned about in school.

Now even though the Greeks didn't have an alphabet during the Dark Age and therefore

didn't have written records, they did what most ancient people did.

They kept their history by telling stories which passed to subsequent generations through

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