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

This is episode 188, Old England and New England.

This time, as we work our way through the story of English,

we're going to focus on events in the early 1630s, as we encounter the first mass migration

from England to North America. During that period, about 20,000 people boarded ships in England

and headed to a brand new colony called the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

So we'll look at that development, and we'll explore the historical and linguistic connections

between Old England and New England.

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, let me quickly plug a couple of projects, which

you might find interesting. I haven't mentioned this because the new episodes are so infrequent now,

but a few months back,

Gideon Ben Ami invited me on his YouTube channel called Let Them Talk TV, and we talked about

middle English and what it sounded like and how it compared to modern English.

It was a fun conversation, and in fact Gideon's entire channel focuses on the history of English,

and it has a lot of fascinating topics.

So even if you don't want to listen to me, I'm sure you'll find lots of other interesting episodes there.

Again, it's called Let Them Talk TV, all one word.

And I also want to give a quick follow-up plug to a podcast I recommended a year or so ago.

It's produced by someone who's been a long-time listener of this podcast, and she's now presenting

an introspective podcast about grief, which is based around the writings of the venerable

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