The series and the book are cast as an adventure story, or the biography of English as if it were a living being, covering the history of the language from its modest beginnings around 500 AD as a minor Germanic dialect to its rise as a truly established global language.
In the television series, Bragg explains the origins and spelling of many words based on the times in which they were introduced into the growing language that would eventually become modern English.
The Battle for the Language of the Bible: In the early to mid 1300s, English fought to be the language of the
Christian Bible through the efforts of theologian John Wycliffe, who
opposed the church’s use of a Latin scripture beca In the early to mid
1300s, English fought to be the language of the Christian Bible through
the efforts of theologian John Wycliffe, who opposed the church’s use of
a Latin scripture because it prevented most of the population from
reading the bible for themselves.
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