Melvyn Bragg looks at how English has evolved over 1,000 years, looking at the disappearance of old dialects like that of Cumbria, and how it has been enriched by foreign languages, from Latin, Old French, and then dozens more as conquest, trade and immigration played their part in recent centuries.
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- Melvyn Bragg - Author
- Melvyn Bragg - Narrator
OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781408496626
- File size: 80016 KB
- Release date: March 1, 2011
- Duration: 02:46:41
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9781408496626
- File size: 80139 KB
- Release date: March 1, 2011
- Duration: 02:46:40
- Number of parts: 3