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Uploaded on Nov 8, 2011

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A look at the history of the English language. (this is a combination of all 10 parts of the series into one video)

(all parts - combined)
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  • MrStealthprawn

    MrStealthprawn 2 months ago

    What exactly are they being hypocritical about?

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  • Bearsca

    Bearsca 2 months ago

    Arabic is shown as one of the languages at 10:36.

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  • fethimafr

    fethimafr 2 days ago

    english = language of the New World Order, the banks, the sionists, etc.

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  • Matthew Trzcinski

    Matthew Trzcinski 2 days ago

    Gal-Stand, if you want to call it something we can take to the stars.

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  • iansteelmatheson

    iansteelmatheson 1 week ago

    i bet you would haha

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  • stelsewhere11

    stelsewhere11 1 week ago

    English is truly Global ... borrowing words from every corner of the world ... As a Scotsman i really believe ditching the name of the language would be a great idea ..

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  • stelsewhere11

    stelsewhere11 1 week ago

    Interesting vid...Scots, Yorkshire , Texas, Australian etc are dialects of English but write in Oxford Dictionary English which brings us all together .... think it's time to change the name though .. maybe "Gobshite" would be an adequate replacement ;)

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  • Will Yen

    Will Yen 1 week ago

    there was no chinese

    

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  • Pinky Mixology

    Pinky Mixology 2 weeks ago

    OK... My one problem with this. At 06:34 , England (Scotland and Whales) gobble up Puerto Rico. ...That wasn't part of the "queen's empire"

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  • Chenney Schell

    Chenney Schell 2 weeks ago

    Very interesting, Although I have no idea what you pronounced that was supposedly Chinese, even when I am a Chinese.

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  • tomsega

    tomsega 2 weeks ago

    It's a technical term that's within 30 or so years old, it's probably not difficult to track down its first usage.

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