The Adventure of English

The Language of Empire

S1 • E7    Nov 27, 2003    65m
8.2
In India, scholar William Jones finds some English words already present in Sanskrit. Convicts land in Australia, blending London criminal slang and Aboriginal words into a new dialect. Jamaicans reclaim patois.

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  • Melvyn Bragg

 

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