The Adventure of English Season 1 Episode 4 This Earth, This Realm, This England 2003
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Visiting 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 into the language, and there was a movement to stop this and keep English 'pure'. Shakespeare combined the languages of the common people and the aristocracy to take English to new heights and to invent so many memorable words and phrases.
- Released: 2003-11-13
- 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
