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

This is episode 186, a Dutch treat.

This time, as we work our way through the story of English, we're going to focus on a couple of important developments that took place in North America in the early 1620s.

First, the pilgrims arrived at Plymouth and created an English settlement there.

And then a group of settlers arrived on the island of Manhattan in what became the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

Of course, we know that settlement today as New York City.

Those migrations brought English to new parts of North America,

and also introduced a Dutch element which is still reflected in the English spoken in the United States,

and to a certain extent in the English spoken around the world.

So as we explore those developments, we'll see how those events and other events during this period

shaped the English language. But before we begin, let me remind you that the website for the

podcast is History of Englishpodcast.com, and you can sign up to support the podcast

and get bonus episodes at patreon.com slash history of English.

Also, this episode is quite long, and it's really a story told in three parts.

The first part of the episode will look at the arrival of English

settlers at Plymouth in New England. I'm going to take you through their story because it's such an

important part of the founding mythology of the United States. The second part of this episode will

focus on developments in England during the same time period, which is basically the early 1620s.

And finally, the third part of the episode will focus on the arrival of settlers in modern-day New York.

That was originally a Dutch colony called New Netherland, and the settlement they built on Lower Manhattan was called New Amsterdam.

So in the final part of this episode, we'll explore those events, and we'll see how the Dutch

language persists in many words and names from that region, and also persist in many common words

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