Bruce N H
Active Member
Hey all,
I've recently started listening again to a podcast that a lot of people around here might find interesting, the History of English Podcast. I figure by virtue of our connection to Tolkien some interest in philology might have rubbed off on some of us, and the development of language over time either in a fictional world or in the real world. Also, there are currently 179 episodes, and they seem to be all over an hour, but that shouldn't be daunting to anyone who's caught up with Exploring LotR. 🙂 The podcast is on Apple podcasts and presumably other podcast providers and there is an associated website here:
I'm way back in the first few episodes, which are about proto-Indo-European and how it was reconstructed from modern languages. It appears from the episode titles that he goes pretty chronologically from various precursors through Old and Middle English and the more recent episodes seem to be about Elizabethan times.
There is also a channel on YouTube that I've enjoyed called RobWords that looks at interesting aspects of the development of English, but this is all in little fifteen minute bites and doesn't go in any systematic way through history.
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Bruce
I've recently started listening again to a podcast that a lot of people around here might find interesting, the History of English Podcast. I figure by virtue of our connection to Tolkien some interest in philology might have rubbed off on some of us, and the development of language over time either in a fictional world or in the real world. Also, there are currently 179 episodes, and they seem to be all over an hour, but that shouldn't be daunting to anyone who's caught up with Exploring LotR. 🙂 The podcast is on Apple podcasts and presumably other podcast providers and there is an associated website here:
I'm way back in the first few episodes, which are about proto-Indo-European and how it was reconstructed from modern languages. It appears from the episode titles that he goes pretty chronologically from various precursors through Old and Middle English and the more recent episodes seem to be about Elizabethan times.
There is also a channel on YouTube that I've enjoyed called RobWords that looks at interesting aspects of the development of English, but this is all in little fifteen minute bites and doesn't go in any systematic way through history.
RobWords
Word facts and language fun. This is a channel for lovers and learners of English. It'll tell you where the words we use come from and why we say the things we say. Get in touch on [email protected]
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Bruce