Aired: Sep 22, 1986Details the origin and evolution of English, from Old English to Middle English.
The Story of English
Season 1 Episode 4: The Guid Scots Tongue
About the influence of Gaelic and Scots on the English language.
Season 1 Episodes:
Aired: Sep 22, 1986
Aired: Sep 29, 1986About the origin of English, from Old English to Middle English.
Aired: Oct 6, 1986The transformation of English during the 16th century. Involves the influence...
Aired: Oct 13, 1986About the influence of Gaelic and Scots on the English language.
Aired: Oct 20, 1986America changes the character of English, causing it to create new dialects.
Aired: Oct 27, 1986How English affected the language of black Africans who came to America as sl...
Aired: Nov 10, 1986Cockney emerges as a dominant English dialect and it is taken into Britain's ...
Aired: Nov 17, 1986How Irish Gaelic was almost brought to extinction by English, and how it is f...
Aired: Nov 24, 1986What lies for the future of the English language?
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