Episode 146 - 1066 and all that: What happened after the Battle of Hastings?
The English Heritage Podcast
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The Legacy of the Norman Conquest
William never learnt english. He never bothered the majority of the norman elite who came over either. Norman became the language of the elite in england. And that has resulted in a lot of the language that we use to day. The fact that certain animals change the word from the alive animal to the dead animal that you eat as te result of who's looking after it, bertis, who's eating it. Asosit of cow versus beef, pig and pork. Can you think of any others? We haven't really discussed language significantly in anything we talked about so far. So not that long, really. 21 years. It's one of the most dynamic periods of english
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