About 1500 years ago, a group of people we would now call Vikings landed in an area that we would now call England and created a language which we would now call Old English.

Fast forward to today, and people from over 140 countries are listening to a daily

podcast about random stuff in a dialect we call American English.

How did some ancient Nordic invaders lead to a language which is now spoken on all seven continents?

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My audiobook recommendation today is Our Magnificent

Bastered Tongue, The Untold Story of English by John McWharter. Covering such turning points as the Viking raids and the Norman conquest and the Germanic invasions that started at all during the 5th century AD,

John McWarter narrates this colorful evolution with vigor.

Drawing on revolutionary genetic and linguistic research,

as well as a cache of remarkable trivia about the origins of English words and

syntax patterns,

McWorder ultimately demonstrates the arbitrary and

maddening nature of English, and its ironic simplicity

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