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...

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  Film & Animation

[OhhCathy]

I remember wanting to create my own language when i was growing up.

[excelkit12]

I like the part where he says: "The History of English, in four minutes."

[Abdessamad Aadoui]

hahahahahahahhahah same here

[clachanyill]

The english..........they can go on and on and on and on and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz yawn about nothing.

[Conor Reed]

When I was in elementary school I did that! I came up with my own alphabet too!

[Richie Sauls]

07:47 Rofls

[KyleSummerBeach]

Vikings didn't have horns on their helmets

[paula dorcenat]

love his little jokes lol

[Getachildouther]

akai anomest vin dryv nakrem ?

[ELuhn]

Then there's the wonderful history of "spam," a joint Anglo-American coinage project. Starting out as a brand name for an American food (?), it was satirized by Monty Python and then co-opted by computer-bulletin-board nerds to become a handy all-in-one noun, adjective and non-irregular verb. It's even spelled phonetically, for a change. And I lived to see the whole story from the beginning. Talk about a living language!

[anderson Bob]

shirast ven goob?