The Adventure of English Season 1 Episode 1 Birth of a Language 2003
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We 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, root from Danish invaders, language from medieval French, and deduce from Renaissance Latin; four of the main - but not all - contributors to the richness of modern English.
- Released: 2003-11-06
- Runtime: 65 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Melvyn Bragg
- Director:
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1. Birth of a Language 2003-11-06
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2. English Goes Underground 2003-11-06
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3. The Battle for the Language of the Bible 2003-11-13
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4. This Earth, This Realm, This England 2003-11-13
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5. English in America 2003-11-20
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6. Speaking Proper 2003-11-20
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7. The Language of Empire 2003-11-27
