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- What are the origins of the English language? In this video we look at lots of facts and statistics and try to reach some accurate figures about English words and where they come from. We'll go back in history to look at words from Anglos-Saxon, French (and Anglo-Norman), Latin, Old Norse, Dutch and Greek as well as words of non Indo-European origin.
0:00 The stats
1:13 The controversy
4:50 The problem with the stats
6:29 How Germanic is English?
8:00 How French is English?
9:55 Etymology challenge
15:40 Non Indo-European words
16:01 Real names and words unknown
16:59 Obscure and technical words
17:34 More about words
18:43 Conclusions
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Get my book:
Middlechester Chronicles and the Story of Idioms: A witty and satirical look at 347 English idioms and their origins told through stories
To read the first chapter free and purchase the book go to aunty.co.uk
===
- What are the origins of the English language? In this video we look at lots of facts and statistics and try to reach some accurate figures about English words and where they come from. We'll go back in history to look at words from Anglos-Saxon, French (and Anglo-Norman), Latin, Old Norse, Dutch and Greek as well as words of non Indo-European origin.
0:00 The stats
1:13 The controversy
4:50 The problem with the stats
6:29 How Germanic is English?
8:00 How French is English?
9:55 Etymology challenge
15:40 Non Indo-European words
16:01 Real names and words unknown
16:59 Obscure and technical words
17:34 More about words
18:43 Conclusions
..If you are a grammar lover you might be interested in our new range of grammarian merchandise exclusive to LetThemTalkTV
teespring.com/stores/my-store-10219664
We go deeper
#LetThemTalkTV
#ZeitgeistBanana
#grammarian
Listen to the Zeitgeist Banana podcast here.
youtube.com/channel/UCgebkwYztP45mX9P5UndD3g
Subscribe here
youtube.com/user/letthemtalkparis?sub_confirmation=1
