Episode 162: The Pirate Queen
The History of English Podcast
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The History of Pirates
The word convoy was a brand-new loan word in English in the mid-1500s. It's a French and Latin word that literally means to travel or take a voyage together. But English already had a version of that word since the 1300s thanks to the Normans. And the Spanish used a convoy to convey that gold and silver across the Atlantic.
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