Episode 151: Sick to Death
The History of English Podcast
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The History of Quickening in the Early 1500s
In the early 1500s we find the first use of that term quickening to refer to a baby's first movement in the womb. It was based on the original sense of the word quick as living were alive. Five months later Jane gave birth, and it was exactly what Henry hoped for,. The boy was named Edward after Edward the Confessor. For the first time Henry seemed to have everything he desired.
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