The History of English in 10 Minutes

A compilation of ten videos on the history of the English language. I compiled the videos into a film to make it a little easier to watch them all. While I do not own the originals. They originals are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Licence agreement. The origin webpage can be found here http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/english-language/the-h...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• English
• Education
• Language
• Humor
• History

[professorawesemo]

Wow thanks for posting this had to view for english homework! Katie:)

[goahead64]

Thanks for post it, great video!!

[Babyshaking]

Clive Anderson?

[1joshjosh1]

Africans don't invent much..

[MCBoneZ]

I love this video :D

European languages as well as Sanskrit and the Indian language come from the same source, somewhere around the Black Sea, thats why they're called "indo-germanic" or "indo-european". So it's possible that they got "cummerband" from there. Maybe even "Kummerbund" isn't a german invention, they could have took it from India or old England and formed it into something familiar... Is eh ein komisches Wort, sowat haben wir nich erfunden ;)

[therealneuerurs]

the word "cummerband" is supposed to have its origin in India? I think that derived from the German word "Kummerbund", which means exactly the same!

[nost2thealgicx]

this was pure greatness

I lol'd the entire time

[pigsdofly6]

huh, I always thought that IMHO stood for "In my horrible opinion"...

[Samura1gamer]

L-O-L now also means league of legends!