Undeceptions with John Dickson
Undeceptions with John Dickson
Undeceptions Ltd
131. English Language
1 hour 1 minutes Posted Jul 28, 2024 at 7:44 pm.
Intro
Old English
Beowulf
Middle English
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Printing Press
The Bible in English
Early Modern English
The codification of English
The Dictionary
The Prodigal Son
5 Minute Jesus
English gobbles up other languages
The Flexibility of English
Grammar
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Half a billion people alive today speak English as their first language. But how you speak English depends on where you live, where you come from, and how it was taught to you. It's truly a universal language. So - what's its history? If this is the language that has done the most to spread Christianity (as some claim), how have its quirks influenced our understanding of the Bible?