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The Language of Empire
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The Language of Empire

Amok, "boomerang," "bungalow," "bangle," "dumdum," "plonk," "assassin" - these are some of the many words that have entered English by way of colonial expansion. This program explores how the British Empire in its heyday exported its language around...

Birth of a Language
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Birth of a Language

Melvyn Bragg begins the story of English in Holland, finding ancestral echoes in the Frisian dialect. What follows is a chapter on survival as the English language weathers Viking and Norman invasions, vying with and eventually absorbing rival tongu...