The Language Wars by Henry Hitchings - review - 2 views
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Jenni Young on 25 Sep 13Review of "an entertaining and thoughtful history of the pedantry, scholarship and prejudice that surround the English language"
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European and Asian languages traced back to single mother tongue - 0 views
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Eurasiatic languages from Portugal to Siberia form 'superfamily' with root in southern Europe 15,000 years ago, scientists claim
Is This How Our Ancestors Sounded? - 0 views
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Linguist Recreates Proto-Indo-European Language (AUDIO)
The Adventure of English (BBC) - (1) Birth of a Language - 0 views
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BBC series on the history of English (2003)
Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European - 0 views
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All modern Indo-European languages are descended from a single tongue called Proto-Indo-European, or PIE, spoken by a people who lived from roughly 4500 to 2500 B.C., and left no written texts. The question became, what did PIE sound like?
The History of English in 10 Minutes - 0 views
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video - 10 one-minute episodes on the history of English.
Words that last - 0 views
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A research team led by Mark Pagel at the University of Reading in England has identified 23 "ultraconserved words" that have remained largely unchanged for 15,000 years (Washington Post)
And the Word of the Year Is... Selfie! : The New Yorker - 0 views
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Silvia Killingsworth explores the history and culture surrounding the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2013: "selfie" (blog)
The Adventure of English - 0 views
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Wikipedia entry on the 2003 BBC series about the history of English. 8 episodes
John Agard - Poetry Archive - 0 views
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John Agard - biography and some readings of his poems, including "Flag" and "Checking out my history"
The Story of English - 0 views
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Video. Search for various episodes from a 1986 documentary series about different topics, especially 'An English speaking world'.
How to be a good wife - 1 views
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Article which discusses the authenticity of a 1950s article, 'The Good Wife's Guide' (snopes.com)
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