The History of English Podcast

The word buoy as in a floating marker came into English via French. Many linguists think it was probably borrowed from the Franks. Words like park and blemish and even the word dance may have originated with the Franks. All of those words pass through French with West Germanic roots. But now we need to turn our attention back to Britain. By the end of the 6th century the Anglo-Saxons were firmly entrenched there. We don't have any written text in their early version of English. But at the beginning of the 7th century some of those Anglo- Saxons began to write down their language. So next time we're going to explore the events of the7th