The History of English Podcast
Kevin Stroud
4.8from 8,094 ratings
- 203
- Episodes
- 11
- Transcribed
- 8,094
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2012
- First episode
About The History of English Podcast
The Spoken History of a Global Language
- Publisher
- Kevin Stroud
- Category
- education · history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Jun 2012
- Latest episode
- 30 Aug 2026
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11 of 203 episodes have a transcript.
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Episode 191: A Vision of the Future
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[…] And that's why older French words that were borrowed into English before the 1600s are still pronounced with that J sound instead of the newer J sound. So, for example, the word marriage came into English in the 1300s from the French word mariage. The J sound at the end was anglicized to J, and the word has been pronounced that way ever since. The same thing happened with the word massage, which was anglicized to message. And the Old French word langage was anglicized to language. And bagage was anglicized to baggage. Again, those were all French words that passed into English in the 1300s and 1400s before the je sound existed in English. […]
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