Prelude+-+A+Brief+History+of+the+English+Language

= Just One Happy* (Language) Family =



*except when invading one another ===The history of the English language is a history steeped in violence and bloodshed, a story of invasions and uprisings, of conquest and defeat, of regicide, revolt, and revolution - social, cultural, and technological. Its cast includes saints and sinners, rogues and regents, pirates, popes, barbarians, bishops, and bards; its setting spans the globe - from the icy shores of Denmark to the misty moors of Wessex to the jungles of India, the outback of Australia, and dark woods of the New World. ===

Sounds pretty cool, huh?
===I hope so, because over the next few weeks, we're each going to have a chance to research and tell a part of that story. Dibs on the pirates! ===

RESOURCES:
Online version of Handout: "English Is a Crazy Language" by Richard Lederer [|excerpts from //**Crazy English**// by Richard Lederer]

[|BBC Ages of English Interactive Timeline]   [|BASH Library]