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Episode 50: A Unified Family of English Speakers

The History of English Podcast

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Siblings and Sisters

The word brother is an old english word with germanic and indo european roots. But what about sister? Well, it was a word, which existed in both old english and old norse. Both versions of the word sister were so similar that it's difficult to say that it came exclusively from either English or Norse. So let's turn our attention back to the brother and sister pair who ruled anglo saxon britain in the early tenth century.

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