The Origins of English

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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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 from our sibling podcast Gone Medieval, Cat Jarman spoke 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	Hi everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.
0:03.6	Great to have you listening.
0:04.7	On this episode of the podcast, I'm going to play one of our sibling podcasts, Gone Medieval.
0:09.2	It's presented by the very brilliant Cat Charm, who you listen to on this channel several
0:13.8	times.
0:14.8	You'll also have seen on History Hit TV, if you're a subscriber, history hit.tv.
0:18.0	One of the most watched ever shows on that channel is me and Cat Charm and I'm the trailer
0:21.8	of the great Heathen Army, the Viking Army.
0:24.4	They're almost, almost defeated Alfred in the late 9th century, but not quite.
0:29.1	Anyway, Cat Charm has got her own podcast in the History Hit family.
0:32.4	It's called Gone Medieval, and on this episode she talks about English.
0:35.8	English is a bit of a thing.
0:37.0	1.35 billion people use it as a first or second language.
0:40.3	Lots of people learning it as we speak.
0:42.7	And some of them I hear listen to this podcast, try and improve their English.
0:47.2	So for those of you listening, thank you very much indeed.
0:49.9	It must have been a nightmare if you have lost a few months because of my dental work when
0:53.6	I spoke very bad English, but I'm getting there now.
0:55.6	I think I'm getting back in the game now.
0:58.0	That's Cat Charm and spoke to Alan Arise.
1:00.4	She's a lecturer in English language and linguistics University of New York, which is
1:04.2	the place to do it, to be honest.
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