Kevin Stroud Talks the History of English
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How Confident Are We in Early Languages?
We speak with a lot of confidence about how language was. What's the basis of the confidence? Most of the confidence comes from the written record. As far as the way it was pronounced, that's a trickier question. And ultimately, I suppose you can say no one can say for certain,. But we have to keep in mind as he noted, when the Roman Latin alphabet was applied to English, it was just applied wholesale.
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