History of English Podcast

Thanks! I'm glad you're up-to-date, but that means you'll have to wait for each new episode. Hopefully, it will continue to be worth the wait. And keep sharing those juicy tidbits.😀

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Well, I knew YOU listened to every episode. I was talking about everyone else.😉 Seriously, thanks for listening. I hope you and Mark are doing well.

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

Glad the wait was worth it. 😄

I'm not familiar with that. It could be a holdover, but it might be an independent development. I'm going to discuss the development of modern Scottish dialects in an upcoming episode, so I'll look for that.

Thanks for the interest! The next episode is on track for next week.

#booksky

3 languages under a trenchcoat pretending to be 1.

I learned (learning) Spanish as a second language and I am so glad I didn't have to learn English this way.

If you are interested in *why* English is the disaster that it is, @englishhistpod.bsky.social

Thanks for the plug. Glad you're enjoying it!

Glad you enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun to put together.

Opossums and the fate of Sir Henry Hudson..?

It’s all here in The History of English podcast

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Thanks for the support!

Thanks for wonderful comments! I'm glad you enjoy the podcast almost every night. A lot of listeners tell me that it helps them to fall asleep at night. It took a while to get used to that 'complement' though. 😉

The episodes are always topical. 😉

Thanks. That wasn't planned when I started the episode. It just sort of came out I was writing that segment and I decided to leave it in.

It varies. This episode ended up being the first half of the material I intended to cover when I started it, so the next episode is already laid out. But generally, I plan about 3 or 4 episodes in advance.

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

A new episode has posted! 'Episode 182: World of Confusion' looks at why certain reptiles were confused with birds, why pickles were once called 'mangos,' and why the inhabitants of one continent were named after another. historyofenglishpodcast.com

Hope you enjoy it!

Thanks! The DNA evidence has largely confirmed the linguistic evidence regarding the homeland of PIE. So the historical linguists led the way and the geneticists followed behind. 😀

Unfortunately, this is the world we live in today. Some people see a conspiracy in everything, especially those who have been radicalized by politics. And I don't see it getting better any time soon.

I replied at that other site, but I think the issue with Apple has been resolved. So feel free to listen as many times as you would like. 😀

I'm glad it's there. I'm doing some work on the website and the podcast feed, so it might be a little inconsistent for a few days.

Aaaaand it's here! (he says, realizing that he forgot to actually link to the episode on the website in the first post...)

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Welcome!

I think the two were somewhat integrated by that point in the 1600s, but specifically, Galileo's views were thought to contradict several passages in the Bible including Chronicles 16:30; Psalm 93:1, 96:10 and 104:5; and Isaiah 45:18.

It's altogether possible. I'm reserving the website domain now.

Thanks Mike! The issue is with the way Apple reads the file that delivers the episodes to listeners. I think I have identified the issue, but I have to get my hosting company to address it. I'm glad you were able to access it thru Podbean, and I'm glad you're enjoying the podcast!

An earlier edition of that dictionary has been my 'go to' source for PIE roots since the beginning of the History of English Podcast.