History of English Language | 1066
Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge
AJ Hoge
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🗓️ 25 February 2017
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The history of the English Language: 1066 is the most important date in the history of English. Why does English have a "double vocabulary system"? Why do some words feel casual, while others feel formal? Why is English spelling so confusing? The answers to those questions can be found in the year 1066. In that year, two battles determined the fate of the English language.
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| 0:53.0 | English vocabulary. |
| 0:54.0 | Did you know |
| 0:56.0 | that English has a kind of double vocabulary system. |
| 1:02.0 | It's a kind of double vocabulary meaning. In other words, often in English we have two words for the same thing, sometimes more. |
| 1:22.0 | But the interesting thing is that these words can have very different feelings. |
| 1:27.0 | Even though the words mean the same, there's a kind of a different feeling. |
| 1:32.0 | One might have a more casual feeling and one might |
| 1:36.8 | have a more formal or intellectual feeling. For example, to drink and to imbibe. |
| 1:47.0 | To drink and to imbibe. |
| 1:50.0 | They mean the same thing. |
| 1:52.0 | But drink has a very common they mean the same thing. |
| 1:58.0 | But drink has a very common conversational, |
| 2:02.0 | informal, not formal feeling. Drink, right? |
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