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 InformationThe Biography of a LanguageMelvyn Bragg travels through Britain to tell the story of how an insignificant German dialect, which only arrived in the country in the fifth century, evolved into a language which is now spoken and understood by more people than any other around the world. We trace English from its humble roots to its flowering in the writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.English is a global language. Every day, in cities all around the world, English is used in encounters between people of different countries. It is estimated that well over a thousand million people around the world speak, or have a working understanding of, English.This is its story. It's a story that really reads like an adventure of extraordinary survival, invasion, near extinction on more than one occasion, and astonishing flexibility.Part 6: Speaking ProperIn eighteenth century Britain, the first English dictionary was produced. A cohort of grammarians imposed new rules on the language. English continued to change and develop and the way people talked and the words they used became a badge of class and breeding and social death could result from dropping an h' or using an inappropriate word.via mvgroupThis Torrent is part of a series the others are here...Adventure_of_English_(2002)_Part_1__Birth_of_a_Language  https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4695896Adventure_of_English_(2002)_Part_2__English_Goes_Underground  https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4695897Adventure_of_English_(2002)_Part_3__Battle_for_the_Language_of_t  https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4695898Adventure_of_English_(2002)_Part_4__This_Earth__this_Realm__this  https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4695899Adventure_of_English_(2002)_Part_5__English_in_America  https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4695901Adventure_of_English_(2002)_Part_6__Speaking_Proper  https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4695903Adventure_of_English_(2002)_Part_7__The_Language_of_Empire  https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4695904Adventure_of_English_(2002)_Part_8__Many_Tongues_Called_English  https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4695905___________________________________________________________________________________please leave a comment if you want, this is just to show what is out there...And before you go and spam, dl it watch it and make up your own mind...cheers the_phyrexianAre you a British citizen? Click here! (Petition to stop Sharia Law)  http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/shariastop	there is a reseed section, read it / use it...  http://suprbay.org/forumdisplay.php?f=35or visit my blog...  http://thephyrexian.tk