One thing everyone is an expert on is his or her own speech. Just try mispronouncing someone’s name or town and see. But we don’t always know where what we say comes from. My History of English class was the second I prepared for Miami University’s Institute for Learning in Retirement. It’s a kind of follow-up to my earlier Anglo-Saxon England class. Here’s the PDF of my presentation.
History of the English language (2 in a series)
May 24, 2009 by Cleve
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