April 2016 A to Z Challenge. I’m participating by writing blogs about history.

E is for English, The History of

In researching for this blog, I found the following ten-minute video from Open University. It’s called “The History of English in Ten Minutes.” I couldn’t create or write anything as brilliant as this, so I’ve admitted my defeat and have transcribed it below. Watch, read, or follow along.

https://youtu.be/njJBw2KlIEo

The History of English in Ten Minutes

Chapter 1 Anglo-Saxon

The English language begins with the phrase ‘Up Yours Caesar!’ as the Romans leave Britain and a lot of Germanic tribes start flooding in, tribes such as the Angles and the Saxons – who together gave us the term Anglo-Saxon, and the Jutes – who didn’t. The Romans left some very straight roads behind, but not much of their Latin language. The Anglo-Saxon vocab was much more useful as it…