
Episode 5: Centum, Satem and the Letter C
The History of English Podcast
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The Assibilation of the K Sound
Linguists believe that the early ancestors of the tecarians travelled eastward, more or less along the trading routes that later evolved into the silk road. This is also a story about sound shifts and how common they are and how regular they can be. And remember that english, as much as any other language, has borrowed heavily from other languages. We have words in our everyday speech that are brand newWords like google, twitter, romance and podcast.
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