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

This is episode 17, Ancient Celts and the Latin Invasion of Gaul.

In this episode, we're going to look at the ancient Celts, the people who once dominated

much of Europe.

And we'll look at the spread of Rome and Latin into many of the territories where the

romance languages are being spoken today.

But before I begin, let me give you an update on a couple of matters.

First, I sometimes neglect to mention the website for the podcast, so let me do that.

It's historyofenglishpodcast.com, and also I've mentioned in past episodes that I'm working

on a series dedicated to the history of the alphabet from its ancient origins to modern

English.

And it's taken me a little longer than I anticipated to put that together because I've been trying

to maintain a regular schedule for this podcast.

And so in order to get an episode of the podcast ready every two weeks, I've not had as

much time to dedicate to the alphabet series.

But it looks like that series will be ready by the start of the New Year, and it will actually

consist of several parts.

First, there'll be an overall history of the alphabet, and then a look at the various

letters and how they got to use in their current form.

So it'll basically be an audiobook which will be divided into several chapters.

So look for that in January.

So let's turn now to this episode.

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