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Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198729136. John McWhorter (2017). Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally). Picador. ISBN 978-1250143785. Hejná, Míša & Walkden, George. 2022. A history of English. (Textbooks in Language Sciences 9).
Common aspects of history covered on the show include religion, crime, the supernatural, archaeology, mythology, and folklore. Some episodes of the show were repackaged as part of a series called " Incredible but True?" , which aired episodes of History's Mysteries as well as other shows (including In Search of History and UFO Files , also ...
Language portal; Linguistics portal; This category covers History of the English language, primarily: Old English; Middle English; Modern English; Generally it does not cover the evolution of dialects, pidgins, constructed languages, and so on. See also: Category:Dialects of English; Category:Forms of English
The modern Frisian language is the closest-sounding language to the English used approximately 2,000 years ago, when the people from what is now the north of the Netherlands travelled to what would become England, and pushed the Celtic language—ancestor of modern Welsh— to the western side of the island. Words like "blue" can be recognised ...
Unnatural Histories is a 3-part British television documentary series produced by the BBC and BBC Natural History Unit.It takes a new look at three of the world's wildernesses; the Serengeti, Yellowstone National Park and the Amazon and discovers that far from being wild and untouched, each has been shaped over time by man.
Fast-forward 100 years to news that was eerily similar. The first coronavirus cases were reported in China just before the dawn of a new decade, and the pandemic continues, having killed an ...
1 hour, 6 min. English As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial: February 27, 2024 1 hour, 36 min. English 500 Days in the Wild: March 15, 2024 1 hour, 60 min: English Kiss the Future: May 7, 2024 1 hour, 43 min. English Let the Canary Sing: June 4, 2024 1 hour, 65 min. English We Will Dance Again: September 24, 2024 1 hour, 90 min: English
As of 2016, 400 million people spoke English as their first language, and 1.1 billion spoke it as a secondary language. [70] English is the largest language by number of speakers. English is spoken by communities on every continent and on islands in all the major oceans. [71]