English Language: Why Do We Speak Like That?
Why do our spellings not match our pronunciations? Why are so many words just really weird? Alice Loxton and Ben Henderson take us on a whistle stop tour of some of the key moments that forged the English Language as we know it today. We’ll be looking at Germanic and French invasions, the impact of a period of history…
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