#history of English podcast

[haveyouheardthispodcast]

[confidentandindecisive]

Babe wake up, new History of English Podcast just dropped

[frogshunnedshadows]

Podcasts!

A couple of the new-to-me podcasts I've stumbled across lately and deem so good I have to tell others:

Supermassive: The Podcast of the Royal Astronomical Society!

Highly recommended for astronomy fans, it covers topics both basic (planets!) and advanced (gravitational waves / dark matter / dark energy) with a refreshingly casual and approachable attitude and humor & enthusiasm.

The History of English (the Language) Podcast

An almost alarmingly meticulous examination of the history of the English language, where it's from, who spoke what when and where, how did it sound in ye past, how and why it changed, all along with coverage of the human history that drives the language. Three and a half episodes on The Great Vowel Shift alone! He's gotten 160+ episodes in, and is only just now getting to Shakespeare! And as a special bonus for persons who prefer to read (rather than be read to), there are PDF transcripts for each episode. Honestly, it does get fairly technical, and I wouldn't recommend the whole catalog unless you are very interested in the minutia of linguistics, BUT you can cherry-pick episodes by topic for good coverage of, say Shakespeare or dirty words in Chaucer, or counting / number words, that sort of thing.

[dickmagician]

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An exploration of the effect of italicization and emphasis on speech and text (Jenson, Robert 1964)

[alliterative-endlessknot]

We're back! Well, the podcast is, anyway! A new episode is up, talking about the history of ecology and the terms food web and food chain. Apologies for the unscheduled hiatus, it's good to be back at it!

(The wrong audio was up briefly; delete & re-download for the right one!)

[hexpositive]

Stardust Sessions with Lozzie Stardust - Deuteronomy and Daemonologie (BONUS)

Now available on your favorite podcatcher!

Just one more hiatus episode to go! This month, we’re wrapping up our dive into the life and deeds of King James VI/I with a discussion of his literary exploits, from commissioning an approved English translation of the Bible to pamphlets on how to hunt witches and rule a country effectively.

Learn how one man’s personal demons and some really poor text formatting decisions changed the course of literary and religious history, and why it’s never a good idea to base your entire understanding of the world around one single book.

Check my Wordpress for podcast show notes and information on upcoming events.

Follow the show on Twitter @hex_podcast for the latest updates! You can also find me as @BreeNicGarran on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, and Wordpress. Follow Lozzie Stardust on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter @bihexual and come chat with us in the Nerd & Tie Discord!

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MUSIC CREDITS

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[legendlarkpod]

you guys were right all along...

norse camp

[notwhelmedyet]

thing's i've been rotating around in my head like a microwave lately: the way native english speakers learn to speak and write english without ever being taught its history

i listen to a podcast on the history of the english language and there were a few episodes rencently-ish on pronunciation (159-161). He explained how voiced vs unvoiced consonants work, how semivowels and approximates work.

SO MANY SPELLING MYSTERIES can be explained by "we froze the spellings after the invention of the printing press, but because pronouncing X is difficult, we shifted to the voiced/unvoiced counterpart of that latter/dropped a syllable". it's like 3rd eye open on how we spell and say things

some consonant sounds are formed by movements of the tongue/mouth to constrict the sound coming out. some are formed by doing that and activating the voicebox. those are unvoiced sounds (no voicebox) and voiced sound (voicebox activated).

f is unvoiced. v is voiced.

why is it wives but a singular wife? well, originally it was wife and wifas (or various other suffixes back when english had a conjugation system like spanish/french/etc). When the suffix became a single s sound it was really hard to say. wifes. try it. it's hard. that's cause all the sounds in that word are voiced except the f and swapping to the unvoiced version for a single sound is hard. so we started saying wives. v is the voiced version of f so the motion of your mouth is exactly the same.

rotating like a microwave y'all

(most of the remaining 75% of spelling mysteries can be explained by:

some pretentious jerk decided to make the spelling look more like its greek/latin roots in the 1500s but we kept pronouncing it the way it's spelled

nobody knew how to pronounce the word so they guessed off the spelling and guessed wrong

gothic script made it hard to read things with lots of u, i, m, n etc next to each other so the scribes fucked with it so they could read the goofy handwriting style

The Great Vowel Shift Strikes Again

this word got adopted after a bunch of spelling shenanigans from a country that doesn't have X rule and we kept the original spelling

someone tried to standardize the spelling system to make things easier and people were like "yeah! great idea" and followed the rule about half the time leading to an even less standardized system)

[theoutcastrogue]

The History of English Podcast #136: The Real Robin Hood

"The legend of Robin Hood has its origins in the murky history of England after the Norman Conquest, but the first written examples of Robin Hood ballads don’t appear until the mid-1400s. In this episode, we examine the earliest references to the legend, and we explore the oldest surviving ballads that tell the story of the legendary outlaw. We also look at evidence of the Great Vowel Shift in these early ballads."

[link] [transcript]

[lingthusiasm]

Gretchen: A lot of people ask me if language is changing faster in the internet era. You get the sense that they really, really want that answer to be yes. They’ll sometimes try to make my answer for that yes even if it’s not what I’m saying. The thing is we just don’t have complete enough records to know that for sure because a lot of the words that become trendy these days may become trendy for a week or so, but that doesn’t mean that they stick around and stay in peoples’ vocabularies. It’s less clear how fast that is happening. Somebody would actually have to do that study. It’s not a study that I’m aware of existing in terms of how fast does the average person’s vocabulary change and how many of the words that are being added in a given year were coined within the last ten years or something like that. It’d be a very complicated study to actually do in practice. It’s hard to say definitively English is changing faster or slower because what do you mean by that change and how long does that change have to persist for you to say it’s a “durable” change versus “This is the trend of the week.”

Lauren: It will hopefully keep future generations of people who make dictionaries very busy.

Gretchen: The good thing is we may be able to answer this question in another 100 years or something because we’ll actually have so much more data of this period.

Excerpt from Lingthusiasm episode ‘Where to get your English etymologies’

Listen to the episode, read the full transcript, or check out more links about the history of language

[richo1915]

After years of Greek, Roman and Byzantine histories, both in Podcast and Books, I took a step forward in time to Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast.

After 6 months of listening to the English, American, French, Spanish ReConquista of South America, Haitian and Mexican Revolutions, I have popped out bleary eyed and squinting into the 20th century’s 1920s.

I still have the Russian Revolution to go (and a few odd Cold War books) but I find myself missing the Ancient World.

[little-desi-historian]

Most Used Tudor-related source...

Tudor week 2023.

Brought to you by @dailytudors! 🌹

Q: most used Tudor related resource?

A: for me personally that is Anna Duchess of Cleves the King’s ‘Beloved sister’ by historian and archivist Heather R. Darsie, and the Tudors Dynasty Podcast. Their webisite.

Book link: https://www.amazon.ca/Anna-Duchess-Cleves-Beloved-Sister/dp/1445677105

Podcast link: https://pod.link/1308062825

[evelynwaughblack]

Dominic Sandbrook & Tom Holland discuss the history of English public schools. 14 September 2023.

[mothocean]

Jojo fans who joined after 4/4/21 will never know the pain of waiting for the stone ocean announcement

[frogshunnedshadows]

And the English Heritage Podcast episode about Whitby, Stoker & Dracula.

[thoughtportal]

What was the interior design like in medieval castles? Why were so many of these fortresses built in Wales? And what was it like to live in one? In our latest ‘Everything you wanted to know’ episode, Marc Morris answers listener questions on the history of British castles.

Speaking to Charlotte Hodgman, he touches on building techniques, the architectural

influence of the crusades, and England’s first fortresses.