Origins of English

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Approximately 1.35 billion people use it, either as a first or second language, so English and the way that we speak it has a daily impact on huge numbers of people. But how did the English language develop?

In this episode of Gone Medieval, first released in July 2021, Dr. Cat Jarman speaks to Eleanor Rye, an Associate Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of York. Using the present day language, place names and dialects as evidence, Ellie shows us how English was impacted by a series of migrations.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit.
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0:20.8	Hello, I'm Dr. Cat Jamon,
0:22.8	and this is Gone Medieval from History Hit,
0:25.2	the podcast dedicated to the Middle Ages.
0:28.0	And sometimes we might wonder what effects
0:30.4	particular events such a place in the past
0:32.3	really had in the longer term.
0:34.2	We might wonder what a period like
0:36.2	the Middle Ages really did for us.
0:38.4	I hopefully this podcast will give you
0:40.4	lots of great answers to that question,
0:42.6	but today I want to focus on something that affects
0:45.1	pretty much everyone listening to this right now,
0:47.4	namely the English language,
0:49.5	because English was essentially created
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