The History of English Podcast

The Spoken History of a Global Language

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Currently Playing: Episode 100: Decoding English

In this special 100th episode, we review the major consonant sound changes that have impacted English since the Proto-Indo-European language.  These sound changes provide us with a set of general rules that we can use to distinguish loanwords from native Old English words. TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 100 (https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/HOE-Transcript-Episode100.pdf)


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