Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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More than half of all English words come from Latin. So do some of the language's strangest idiosyncrasies....

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:36 Old English
1:25 Norman conquest
1:53 MyHeritage
3:23 Medieval to Renaissance
4:18 Shakespeare and company
5:08 Modern borrowings
5:48 Spelling
6:33 Grammar
7:03 Too much Latin?
7:40 Gifts of a dual heritage