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Let's explore how the Romans have influenced English down the centuries. And remember you can get 55% off Lingopie's annual plan at learn.lingopie.com/Robwords.
We use words left behind by the Romans every day. Their encounters with the Germanic tribes caused Latin words to slip into our language before it even became "English".
In this video let's explore all the words that we've borrowed from the Romans: from the earliest imports to modern medical Latin.
Enjoy!
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==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Before Old English
2:49 Old English
4:56 Lingopie
6:19 Middle English
7:20 The Renaissance
9:15 Spellings ruined
9:58 Scientific words
11:28 New technology
Let's explore how the Romans have influenced English down the centuries. And remember you can get 55% off Lingopie's annual plan at learn.lingopie.com/Robwords.
We use words left behind by the Romans every day. Their encounters with the Germanic tribes caused Latin words to slip into our language before it even became "English".
In this video let's explore all the words that we've borrowed from the Romans: from the earliest imports to modern medical Latin.
Enjoy!
📝Sign up to my NEWSLETTER here: robwords.com/newsletter
Check me out on the web, on Twitter & TikTok:
robwords.com
twitter.com/robwordsYT
tiktok.com/@robwords
Edited with Gling AI: bit.ly/46bGeYv
#english #latin #etymology
==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Before Old English
2:49 Old English
4:56 Lingopie
6:19 Middle English
7:20 The Renaissance
9:15 Spellings ruined
9:58 Scientific words
11:28 New technology
![NUMPIRE, NAPRON, [N]EWT and other words were getting wrong](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XBVu4CjYZmo/hqdefault.jpg "NUMPIRE, NAPRON, [N]EWT and other words were getting wrong
Did you know an umpire should actually be a numpire?
Whats more... an apron should be a napron, an adder a nadder, a newt an ewt, and a nickname an ickname. This video explains why on earth that is.
For centuries, English scholars have been accidentally rebracketing words (its also known as metanalysis). Many of their mistakes have stuck in the language, meaning we continue to get these words wrong.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Numpire, napron & nadder
0:27 Explanation of rebracketing
1:20 Newt & nickname
1:44 Evidence in other languages
2:06 Errors that didnt catch on
2:24 Bye bye")
