The Adventure of English S01E05 · English in America

Overview

Following the English language on its journey overseas and tracing the story of how the language of the British Isles became a language for the world - the most widely spoken and understood vernacular in history. In America the language of a small group of seventeenth-century English immigrants only survived through the most unlikely coincidence – but America was to develop a vigorous new vocabulary, and to spread it around the globe.

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1. 1 1. Birth of a Language2003-11-06 · 1h 5mWe are going to delve down to the roots of the language and deduce its history - and in that one sentence we hear words from four different sources; delve from Dark Age Anglo-Saxon
2. 2 2. English Goes Underground2003-11-06 · 1h 5mWe see how England was ruled for three centuries after the Conquest by a French-speaking king and court which used Latin for their official business. English was the language of th
3. 3 3. The Battle for the Language of the Bible2003-11-13 · 1h 5mThis is the story of how English became the battleground in the fight for men's souls. The medieval church establishment kept the Bible in Latin, while those possessing an English
4. 4 4. This Earth, This Realm, This England2003-11-13 · 1h 5mVisiting the England of Queen Elizabeth the First shows how naval enterprise and foreign trade brought scores of new words into the language. Scholars were bringing new Latin terms
5. 5 5. English in America2003-11-20 · 1h 5mFollowing the English language on its journey overseas and tracing the story of how the language of the British Isles became a language for the world - the most widely spoken and u
6. 6 6. Speaking Proper2003-11-20 · 1h 5mIn eighteenth century Britain, the first English dictionary was produced. A cohort of grammarians imposed new rules on the language. English continued to change and develop and the
7. 7 7. The Language of Empire2003-11-27 · 1h 5mTravelling to parts of the former British Empire, we see how English met other cultures and other languages, and was enriched by them. We travel to India to see how English began a
8. 8 8. Many Tongues Called English, One World Language2003-11-27 · 1h 5mThe concluding episode looks at how in the 20th century the rise of America as an industrial power has made it the driving force behind the global spread of English. The English la