The most amazing and detailed history of our bastard language that I have seen so far in my long lifetime as a devout and devoted lover of this English language|!
Does anyone else find it absolutely amazing that the language of this small, cold, rainy country eventually ended up the international business language of the world, and the only language that international pilots are permitted to use to air traffic control? If I stop and think about it, it blows my mind sometimes!
That's largely due to the fact that during Victoria's reign, the British had colonized a great many countries, all around the world! Back then they used to say that the sun never sets in Victoria's empire. That's because it was so vast, it may be night time in Great Britain, but, not half way round the world in say, India. No other country has been so successful in so many colonies all around the globe, including Spain! Though Spain takes second place in that endeavor. So, even though the actual country is but an island, the language of that island was spread around the most. So, it stands to reason it has become thee language. Lol. I'm a history nerd. Forgive my history lesson. I thought you might find it interesting. Have a great night! ☺
Xocolatl, tomatl, coyotl (coyote). The silent Indigenous - their credit taken everywhere. Corn, Zea mais, took 9K years to select from seeds of a wild grass. Zea mais is responsible for China´s population boom (Asia, the Great Tradition) and for more of colonizing practices abroad in Africa. Potatoes came from around Peru. Great kings adept in agronomy developed countless other foods over thousands of years to the modern product, yes, yams included. Mexican Indigenous used wild yams for birth control, were observed by American scientists on a separate project, and the yams were taken to isolate the phytoestrogens to create the birth control pill of the 1960´s.
OK, for the people who study English as a second language, this is quite helpful and informative programm. I don't know if there is a programm like this dedicated to the Russian language on RTV, but if so I'm afraid to TV programm will be a man like Cheek in opposite, maybe even in a priest's cassock, persuading the audience that many of all latin, english or french words we use now were originally russian words, taken by englishmen, frenchmen or even ancient romans and then returned into the russian language again. Seriously!
Russian was so isolated, and so lacking in elite non-sacred written literature til Pushkin, that the series would be a lot shorter. Doesn't mean that Russian isn't one of the great literatures--one of my lit teachers said the great three (at least, outside of east Asia) were Greek, English, and Russian lit. But what makes English unique is a thousand years of class warfare in which the two classes had very different languages and already had independent traditions of literary and sacred texts. The interplay of the Germanic Anglo-Saxon culture (which became that of the lower and middle classes) with the Norman-French, and then the battle for whether the Church/Latin or ordinary people/English would control religion, then all that colonialism, made English an enormously changeable language over time with a huge vocabulary. You can read medieval French easily if you can read modern French; the "modern English" of Shakespeare is borderline different language, neve mind middle and Old English.
That's not entirely accurate there was not any non-sacred literature in Russia before Pushkin, some kind of literature was even in before-Peter-the-first time but of couse it can't compare with English amount even approximately. And I didn't understand about thousand years of class warfare, as far as I know French language preveiled over English less than four hundred years and Shakespeare's language is quite understandable to modern Englishmen. By the way in Russia the most popular Shakespeare's phrase is not "To be...", but "Do you pray at night, Dezdemona?"
The English language is the language of Western Civilization. It's an amalgam of Europe's' highest ideals, accomplishments, and eternal quest for knowledge.
Do not forever with thy vailèd lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know’st ’tis common. All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
Sailors might have brought it to England, but my 5 year old brother brought F* home from Kindergarten in 1970 -- which to this day I remember the first time he said it.
Hehehe. I think learning curse words are the first words anybody learns of a foreign language. I live where English, Spanish, Choctaw (origin of okay) and Chickasaw are spoken. There are still slang curse words that surprise me, and kids pick them up quickly.
He's wrong about how and when fuck came into English. The earliest known use is from court documents from 1310 which mention a man named Roger Fuckebythenavel.
Fuck was in English far before this. The earliest known usage is in a court document from 1310 mentioning one Roger Fuckebythenavel, which is quite possibly the best name in history.
Oh dear, comments on Shakespeare still get to "he didn't write Shakespeare." Shakespeare lived in the Renaissance. We are not living in a Renaissance now, but possibly following in the footsteps of the Roman Empire that fell, so some people just can't believe that Shakespeare wrote the plays and poetry attributed to him. But I believe, especially after watching this video, that Shakespeare was having fun with the growing English language.
I like this series, but the audio has a high pitched whine which is REALLY annoying. It must have been imported from composite video, and the horizontal signal leaked into the audio track. Analog television sets had a high-cut filter to deal with this problem, but today's digital equipment does not.
@@reneenayfabnaynay5679 What he means is, English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and rummages through their pockets for loose grammar.
Too bad that a section of England didn't retain the Anglo Saxon English! It would've been interesting to hear what Old English really sounded like! They say that Frisian is the closest language we have today, that resembles Old English the most!
Renaissance isn't from the french word, but has it origins in the Albanian language. The word 'RE' means new, ''NISE'' means start or begin -> the word means new start In french new is Nouveau no RE or RI Example ri ciklie new cikle Also the word tongue is Albanian it means ,TON - tone, and GUH - toungue -->2 words tone tounge this was explanation number one for the word tongue we have explanation number 2 for the word ton TU NI GUE in Albanian means TU- to NI - hear GUE OR GUHE - tongue -- tone, ,tu ni, can u see the similarities the word tone - tu ni - means to hear welcome to big mama Albania Detail is Albanian, Dit means day the meaning is to put things in the light dit means day, and drit means light ALISABETH I think is an Albanian name it means A le sa bet - is born very well/good/beautiful/nice a means is, le means born, sa mean how/very, bet means well/good/beautiful/nice Fx. Tibet --> ti means you and bet means good and so on You know that in India there is a caste system, those from tibet are superior the word beautiful i think it comes from the word bet In kosova they use this word BET - nice BEAU,TI tern it arawnd ti beaut in kosova they sey BET
This episode just convinced me further that no way we're the works of Shakespeare written by the dullard from Stratford upon Avon. His education and background and local dialect would not have given flower to the richness of language and experience of courtly life displayed in the plays and sonnets. Even in his will no documents or mention of any of his works which were published by London 'friend's like Johnson who surely new the truth about who really authored the plays, either Marlowe who had precedence as an acknowledged playwright in exile in Europe where e many of the plays are set or else De Vere Shakespeare of Stratford!? - no way!
Robyn Daniels, I have to wonder why the people who knew him, and the people who worked with him had no such doubts. Surely, other playwrights of the time would have had ample reason to besmirch his reputation. Actually, I can remember one who did scoff at him, but even he didn't take the line you and your fellow idiots do. In fact, I can't think of even one of his contemporaries who ever doubted that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. How is it that you know so much more about him than those who shared drinks with him?
@@quabledistocficklepo3597 I sooo agree with you! All these stupid theories didn't even start til after his death! Of course he wrote his plays! Besides, why would another playwright let him take credit for a play that was theirs, and not his? Especially since they were so successful! No one is going to give up fame and fortune for some dumb guy, who isn't bright enough to do it on his own! People are funny! They just want to think they are in on the real story, when, in reality, all they're in on is stupid rumor and gossip! But, in this case, it wasn't even gossip til well after WSs death! If he was so uneducated, don't you think folks would've had a clue during his lifetime?
Robyn Daniels, (we're>were, upon>on, 'friend's>friends, new>knew), and I have let you slide on missing commas and other sub-standard English. You have no qualifications to be talking about Shakespeare. It would be better if you deleted your comments and went into a well-deserved oblivion.
R Pigeon FabNayNay , Thanks for that. You stated the case against these nitwits much more effectively than I did. Unfortunately, they keep popping up, so it is the job of people like you and I to put them down. Sigh. The work never ends.
andreasegde-- Your credibility was established when you cited your sources, and lost beginning at the moment when you hit the caps lock and contiued. You should have quit while you had your dignity.
Do you mean things like how did some of our grammar rules come into place? You know, rules like I before E, accept after C and so forth. Lol! Good question! Those details would've been interesting!
The plays attributed to Shakespeare are in dispute. That the plays are brilliant is understood, but there is scant evidence that the director, part owner, and actor William Shakespeare had the time or knowledge to craft those plays. More likely is that the authors were kept anonymous for their protection.
Asron Hoffmeyer, That's what some people used to say, but you don't hear that much anymore. Most say that he had a perfectly respectable education, one that prepared him well for his life's work.
No one has ever been able to produce any evidence that he isn't the true author! It's kind of ridiculous if you ask me. Of course he wrote them! Unless you have proof, you shouldn't spread falsehoods!
more like ireland - PERHAPS nova scotia - if you listen to david crystal's reconstruction (on youtube) it makes tons of sense... the only thing that actually rhymes
It's a very soft Cumbrian accent- northern English. When he chooses to, he can make it extremely broad, and I think he spoke that way as a boy. But every now & then he mangles a pronunciation, probably as a result of constantly balancing old accent with RP, and then I have to rewind to work out what he said. I spent ages trying to work out what he'd really said in ep 3 when he said falcons "melted". It was moulted.
I need this put in the vernacular for me because I'm just a dumb truck driver but first I'll have to look up the word vernacular. Ha haha ha I made that up and I am indeed a dumb trucker from Saskatchewan.
Myriaddsystems They put me in french immersion school when I was a kid so probably not , there's probably small UK children that speak better English than moi.
From what I've read, this speech was not written until after her death. She did so much that was so great, it seems a pity that this speech should now stand for all she did.
Once again Bragg makes the same error as he did in Episode 1 by claiming English as beginning in Friesland(part of Holland). The beginnings of English are from the people that inhabited the region of what is now known as Schlesswig-Holstein in Germany. They were the first to speak a guttural, unrecognisable "Sprach" that no English-speaker, or even German-speaker would understand today. These people were called the "Anglii"(Ang-Lee-Eye), from which the words England and English are derived.
Neil Forbes Bragg didn't claim English came 'from' Frisland, but that Fris sounds today very much like the Germanic proto language that became English - in E1 he quite clearly said the language was that of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. The pilgrims of East Anglia sojourned in Holland, before setting out for New England. Methinks in this episode, he was returning to the Dutch as metaphor..
Fair enough. As someone who took it on himself to learn German back in the 1980s, When "The Story Of English", presented by Robert MacNeil first aired on an then-relatively-new TV network in Australia, namely SBS(Special broadcasting Service), the series pricked my interest and watched it right through, even recording the episodes to VHS over three E-180(PAL system, the NTSC system tapes were T-180) cassettes, each holding three editions.
There's no evidence that Shakespeare attended the grammar school in Stratford. This program also repeats the myth that Shakespeare used many words unique Warwickshire. Recent research has shown this is not true.
7:32-7:35 Sorry, chocolate and tomato didn't come from the French!!!! These have a nahuatl (aztec) origin. Chocolatl comes from "Xocolatl" which was the drink made from the cacao bean (Xoco=bitter and atl=water). Tomatoes were a native mesoamerican fruit later exported to Europe (from Tomatl, tomal or tomohual= rounded and atl=water). Is a shame, I was enjoying this doc but this info is not at all accurate.
Mezzofanti Mmm... and the French took it from the Spanish as these products were mainly from the Spanish empire (as well, Nahuatl was first translated to Spanish). Despite the interpretation, it's important to mention the true origin is Nahuatl to give relevance to the native languages.
i thought the same about xocolatl....not french....another example of the program of excluding native american languages from the english language. the elites are skkkared of ancient natural world knowledge from native people polluting the program that theyve devised for the minds of the masses.
Do you mean the word he says at 18:01? Because he's not saying abruption- I've replayed it many times, and he's saying something like airuption or eription- no b sound in it whatever he's saying. But he's often unclear in some of his words and he could do with having the unusual ones up on the screen more often. I reckon he felt he didn't need to, as this series was based on his book on the subject, so he may have felt that any ambiguities would be explained there.
Where is your evidence to support your claim? These charges have been made many times and have been shown to be false, even to the point where Bacon's grave was opened but, lo and behold, there was nothing to show he had penned them and had them buried with him.
The most amazing and detailed history of our bastard language that I have seen so far in my long lifetime as a devout and devoted lover of this English language|!
Does anyone else find it absolutely amazing that the language of this small, cold, rainy country eventually ended up the international business language of the world, and the only language that international pilots are permitted to use to air traffic control? If I stop and think about it, it blows my mind sometimes!
That's largely due to the fact that during Victoria's reign, the British had colonized a great many countries, all around the world! Back then they used to say that the sun never sets in Victoria's empire. That's because it was so vast, it may be night time in Great Britain, but, not half way round the world in say, India. No other country has been so successful in so many colonies all around the globe, including Spain! Though Spain takes second place in that endeavor.
So, even though the actual country is but an island, the language of that island was spread around the most. So, it stands to reason it has become thee language. Lol. I'm a history nerd. Forgive my history lesson. I thought you might find it interesting. Have a great night! ☺
I count myself lucky that I speak English as a native tongue. Learning it would be a pain, but maybe necessary, depending.
How funny to hear Melvyn Bragg swearing his head off... priceless.
Try reading his novels- you don't win a literary prize for writing badly about sex by being a shrinking violet.
Thank you for the English language story. It tells the stories of xocolatl the best of ways. Mazeltov!
Xocolatl, tomatl, coyotl (coyote). The silent Indigenous - their credit taken everywhere. Corn, Zea mais, took 9K years to select from seeds of a wild grass. Zea mais is responsible for China´s population boom (Asia, the Great Tradition) and for more of colonizing practices abroad in Africa. Potatoes came from around Peru. Great kings adept in agronomy developed countless other foods over thousands of years to the modern product, yes, yams included. Mexican Indigenous used wild yams for birth control, were observed by American scientists on a separate project, and the yams were taken to isolate the phytoestrogens to create the birth control pill of the 1960´s.
Thank you for posting this video. I am learning so much.
Hahah. The greengrocer at 7:00 was singing La Boheme but with a sui generis tune. I only recognised it from the words. :D
Hi
Awesome doco! And as the ship disappears beyond the horizon, I see the crow's nest as the crown of England. Shalom
fascinating to hear how Shakespeare might have sounded - "once more into the breach"
OK, for the people who study English as a second language, this is quite helpful and informative programm. I don't know if there is a programm like this dedicated to the Russian language on RTV, but if so I'm afraid to TV programm will be a man like Cheek in opposite, maybe even in a priest's cassock, persuading the audience that many of all latin, english or french words we use now were originally russian words, taken by englishmen, frenchmen or even ancient romans and then returned into the russian language again. Seriously!
Russian was so isolated, and so lacking in elite non-sacred written literature til Pushkin, that the series would be a lot shorter. Doesn't mean that Russian isn't one of the great literatures--one of my lit teachers said the great three (at least, outside of east Asia) were Greek, English, and Russian lit. But what makes English unique is a thousand years of class warfare in which the two classes had very different languages and already had independent traditions of literary and sacred texts. The interplay of the Germanic Anglo-Saxon culture (which became that of the lower and middle classes) with the Norman-French, and then the battle for whether the Church/Latin or ordinary people/English would control religion, then all that colonialism, made English an enormously changeable language over time with a huge vocabulary. You can read medieval French easily if you can read modern French; the "modern English" of Shakespeare is borderline different language, neve mind middle and Old English.
That's not entirely accurate there was not any non-sacred literature in Russia before Pushkin, some kind of literature was even in before-Peter-the-first time but of couse it can't compare with English amount even approximately. And I didn't understand about thousand years of class warfare, as far as I know French language preveiled over English less than four hundred years and Shakespeare's language is quite understandable to modern Englishmen. By the way in Russia the most popular Shakespeare's phrase is not "To be...", but "Do you pray at night, Dezdemona?"
Dmitriy Smirnov awww poor baby lol sounds you like you're pouting for Putin
Dmitriy Smimov,
Don't be such a fool.
The English language is the language of Western Civilization. It's an amalgam of Europe's' highest ideals, accomplishments, and eternal quest for knowledge.
My favourite quotations:
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Others?
Do not forever with thy vailèd lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
Thou know’st ’tis common. All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
Neididellavittoria,
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and...."
here i sit, broken hearted
tried to shit, but only farted
...shakespeare i believe
Sailors might have brought it to England, but my 5 year old brother brought F* home from Kindergarten in 1970 -- which to this day I remember the first time he said it.
Hehehe. I think learning curse words are the first words anybody learns of a foreign language. I live where English, Spanish, Choctaw (origin of okay) and Chickasaw are spoken. There are still slang curse words that surprise me, and kids pick them up quickly.
He's wrong about how and when fuck came into English. The earliest known use is from court documents from 1310 which mention a man named Roger Fuckebythenavel.
3:51 "Damn Limeys"!
Fuck was in English far before this. The earliest known usage is in a court document from 1310 mentioning one Roger Fuckebythenavel, which is quite possibly the best name in history.
Oh dear, comments on Shakespeare still get to "he didn't write Shakespeare." Shakespeare lived in the Renaissance. We are not living in a Renaissance now, but possibly following in the footsteps of the Roman Empire that fell, so some people just can't believe that Shakespeare wrote the plays and poetry attributed to him. But I believe, especially after watching this video, that Shakespeare was having fun with the growing English language.
I totally agree with you! I hate when someone tries to say he didn't write his plays! Of course he wrote them! And yes, he had great fun doing so!
Surprised he didn't talk about Wyatt
15:24 LOL at the subtitles: "buttcheeks enthusiasm" instead of "But Cheke's enthsiasm". Sounds very Chaucerian...
Now you two, stop all that 'nave' calling.. ..... i'll be here all week
I like this series, but the audio has a high pitched whine which is REALLY annoying. It must have been imported from composite video, and the horizontal signal leaked into the audio track. Analog television sets had a high-cut filter to deal with this problem, but today's digital equipment does not.
"Chocolate" and "Tomato" ultimately come from the Nahuatl language.
He's after saying they originate from french vocabulary
So basically English started as a Germanic offshoot, and then morphed to become and use accretion instead. Nice.
Huh???
@@reneenayfabnaynay5679 What he means is, English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and rummages through their pockets for loose grammar.
JANIS is moutain for all langueges.
ROBSON Melv - Rob and son - it rhymes with Hobson.
Too bad that a section of England didn't retain the Anglo Saxon English! It would've been interesting to hear what Old English really sounded like! They say that Frisian is the closest language we have today, that resembles Old English the most!
yes they say it in this series
Covered that in part 1...
Renaissance isn't from the french word, but has it origins in the Albanian language. The word 'RE' means new, ''NISE'' means start or begin -> the word means new start
In french new is Nouveau no RE or RI Example ri ciklie new cikle
Also the word tongue is Albanian it means ,TON - tone, and GUH - toungue -->2 words tone tounge this was explanation number one for the word tongue
we have explanation number 2 for the word ton
TU NI GUE in Albanian means TU- to NI - hear GUE OR GUHE - tongue -- tone, ,tu ni, can u see the similarities
the word tone - tu ni - means to hear welcome to big mama Albania
Detail is Albanian, Dit means day the meaning is to put things in the light
dit means day, and drit means light
ALISABETH I think is an Albanian name
it means A le sa bet - is born very well/good/beautiful/nice
a means is, le means born, sa mean how/very, bet means well/good/beautiful/nice
Fx. Tibet --> ti means you and bet means good and so on
You know that in India there is a caste system, those from tibet are superior
the word beautiful i think it comes from the word bet
In kosova they use this word BET - nice BEAU,TI tern it arawnd ti beaut in kosova they sey BET
This episode just convinced me further that no way we're the works of Shakespeare written by the dullard from Stratford upon Avon. His education and background and local dialect would not have given flower to the richness of language and experience of courtly life displayed in the plays and sonnets. Even in his will no documents or mention of any of his works which were published by London 'friend's like Johnson who surely new the truth about who really authored the plays, either Marlowe who had precedence as an acknowledged playwright in exile in Europe where e many of the plays are set or else De Vere Shakespeare of Stratford!? - no way!
Robyn Daniels,
I have to wonder why the people who knew him, and the people who worked with him had no such doubts. Surely, other playwrights of the time would have had ample reason to besmirch his reputation. Actually, I can remember one who did scoff at him, but even he didn't take the line you and your fellow idiots do. In fact, I can't think of even one of his contemporaries who ever doubted that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. How is it that you know so much more about him than those who shared drinks with him?
@@quabledistocficklepo3597 I sooo agree with you! All these stupid theories didn't even start til after his death! Of course he wrote his plays! Besides, why would another playwright let him take credit for a play that was theirs, and not his? Especially since they were so successful! No one is going to give up fame and fortune for some dumb guy, who isn't bright enough to do it on his own! People are funny! They just want to think they are in on the real story, when, in reality, all they're in on is stupid rumor and gossip! But, in this case, it wasn't even gossip til well after WSs death! If he was so uneducated, don't you think folks would've had a clue during his lifetime?
Robyn Daniels,
(we're>were, upon>on, 'friend's>friends, new>knew), and I have let you slide on missing commas and other sub-standard English. You have no qualifications to be talking about Shakespeare. It would be better if you deleted your comments and went into a well-deserved oblivion.
R Pigeon FabNayNay ,
Thanks for that. You stated the case against these nitwits much more effectively than I did. Unfortunately, they keep popping up, so it is the job of people like you and I to put them down. Sigh. The work never ends.
Not everyone in Middle-east speaks Arabic, Iranian languages: Persian, Kurdish and so one as well as Azari and Turkish ! 4:51
im goin to watch the hobbit
Expede survived in the form of expedite and expedition.
"Expede" also survived in Scots legal usage, e.g. to expede a Notice of Title (a conveyancing document).
Really fascinating so far....but nothing has been said about the infusion of Greek vocabulary into English...???
He did, at 12:14, and at 12:46 and 21:48 - ARE YOU DEAF?
watch the previous episodes-they talk about greek arabic spanish et al
Layne Zyler are you sure ?????
andreasegde-- Your credibility was established when you cited your sources, and lost beginning at the moment when you hit the caps lock and contiued. You should have quit while you had your dignity.
HollywoodF1 he says as he replies to a three year old comment
The word-lists are wonderful, but there's a lot more to language than just vocabulary. I wonder why there's no discussion of anything else.
Do you mean things like how did some of our grammar rules come into place? You know, rules like I before E, accept after C and so forth. Lol! Good question! Those details would've been interesting!
When was Pig Latin first published?
The plays attributed to Shakespeare are in dispute. That the plays are brilliant is understood, but there is scant evidence that the director, part owner, and actor William Shakespeare had the time or knowledge to craft those plays. More likely is that the authors were kept anonymous for their protection.
Asron Hoffmeyer,
That's what some people used to say, but you don't hear that much anymore. Most say that he had a perfectly respectable education, one that prepared him well for his life's work.
No one has ever been able to produce any evidence that he isn't the true author! It's kind of ridiculous if you ask me. Of course he wrote them! Unless you have proof, you shouldn't spread falsehoods!
Aaron Hoffmeyer,
Ho hum, it never ends.
I like this British accent
more like ireland - PERHAPS nova scotia - if you listen to david crystal's reconstruction (on youtube) it makes tons of sense... the only thing that actually rhymes
It's a very soft Cumbrian accent- northern English. When he chooses to, he can make it extremely broad, and I think he spoke that way as a boy. But every now & then he mangles a pronunciation, probably as a result of constantly balancing old accent with RP, and then I have to rewind to work out what he said. I spent ages trying to work out what he'd really said in ep 3 when he said falcons "melted". It was moulted.
lol Hillary Clintub- to me that states the intent: Americans expect their government to act as one, Brits know that their MPs don't.
I need this put in the vernacular for me because I'm just a dumb truck driver but first I'll have to look up the word vernacular. Ha haha ha I made that up and I am indeed a dumb trucker from Saskatchewan.
You probably speak better English than most - especially in the UK
Myriaddsystems They put me in french immersion school when I was a kid so probably not , there's probably small UK children that speak better English than moi.
Hi, vernacular means, as it was spoken, I think. x
Stevo,
"There once was a man from Saskatchewan" Gee, it's tough to fit that into a limerick. I'll give it a try, though.
From what I've read, this speech was not written until after her death.
She did so much that was so great, it seems a pity that this speech should now stand for all she did.
Once again Bragg makes the same error as he did in Episode 1 by claiming English as beginning in Friesland(part of Holland). The beginnings of English are from the people that inhabited the region of what is now known as Schlesswig-Holstein in Germany. They were the first to speak a guttural, unrecognisable "Sprach" that no English-speaker, or even German-speaker would understand today. These people were called the "Anglii"(Ang-Lee-Eye), from which the words England and English are derived.
Neil Forbes Bragg didn't claim English came 'from' Frisland, but that Fris sounds today very much like the Germanic proto language that became English - in E1 he quite clearly said the language was that of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. The pilgrims of East Anglia sojourned in Holland, before setting out for New England. Methinks in this episode, he was returning to the Dutch as metaphor..
Out, out, damned spot.
Fair enough. As someone who took it on himself to learn German back in the 1980s, When "The Story Of English", presented by Robert MacNeil first aired on an then-relatively-new TV network in Australia, namely SBS(Special broadcasting Service), the series pricked my interest and watched it right through, even recording the episodes to VHS over three E-180(PAL system, the NTSC system tapes were T-180) cassettes, each holding three editions.
Neil Forbes it's okay I hear what I want to hear all the time too lol
Neil Forbes
Excuse me but can you explain silent letters?
What part of 'no' or 'know' do i not understand??
THE 'k'!
Jimmy Page,
Google it.
I can't find part 2. Can somebody help me please.
m.ua-cam.com/video/F4j4dhICMlA/v-deo.html
Tomato and chocolate are Welsh words. They both mean things to eat.
There's no evidence that Shakespeare attended the grammar school in Stratford. This program also repeats the myth that Shakespeare used many words unique Warwickshire. Recent research has shown this is not true.
I hear Francis Bacon was really high on the hog and like to ham it up.
7:32-7:35 Sorry, chocolate and tomato didn't come from the French!!!! These have a nahuatl (aztec) origin. Chocolatl comes from "Xocolatl" which was the drink made from the cacao bean (Xoco=bitter and atl=water). Tomatoes were a native mesoamerican fruit later exported to Europe (from Tomatl, tomal or tomohual= rounded and atl=water). Is a shame, I was enjoying this doc but this info is not at all accurate.
He means that they came to ENGLISH from FRENCH. The French got them from the native languages but English got them from French.
Mezzofanti Mmm... and the French took it from the Spanish as these products were mainly from the Spanish empire (as well, Nahuatl was first translated to Spanish). Despite the interpretation, it's important to mention the true origin is Nahuatl to give relevance to the native languages.
Jesus lady, let me guess, you think Columbus day is racist.
i thought the same about xocolatl....not french....another example of the program of excluding native american languages from the english language. the elites are skkkared of ancient natural world knowledge from native people polluting the program that theyve devised for the minds of the masses.
greg lopez "via French".
I've seen too much of this for one day, and I'm finding it BORING. I'll have to come back to it tomorrow.
on the morrow ... to-morrow!
. John Quill Taylor,
"and tomorrow, and..."
Shalom, please Google black European royalty.
the word abruption didn't survive into modern usage? yeah that's patently false. google it
Do you mean the word he says at 18:01? Because he's not saying abruption- I've replayed it many times, and he's saying something like airuption or eription- no b sound in it whatever he's saying. But he's often unclear in some of his words and he could do with having the unusual ones up on the screen more often. I reckon he felt he didn't need to, as this series was based on his book on the subject, so he may have felt that any ambiguities would be explained there.
Shakespeare was really Francis Bacon.
dhsscd indeed
dhsscd
I have heard this theory before. Are there computer softwares that can bring some form of certainty or veracity to the argument.
Where is your evidence to support your claim? These charges have been made many times and have been shown to be false, even to the point where Bacon's grave was opened but, lo and behold, there was nothing to show he had penned them and had them buried with him.
@@Wotdermatter I agree with you! I think it's a bunch of rubbish!
dhsscd,
When will you guys stop? Go away.