What are the Origins of English Words? Facts and Stats and lots of History

Get my book: Middlechester Chronicles and the Story of Idioms: A witty and satirical look at 347 English idioms and their origins told through stories To read the first chapter free and purchase the book go to www.aunty.co.uk === What are the origins of the English language? In this video we look at lots of facts and statistics and try to reach some accurate figures about English words and where they come from. We'll go back in history to look at words from Anglos-Saxon, French (and Anglo-Norman), Latin, Old Norse, Dutch and Greek as well as words of non Indo-European origin. 0:00 The stats 1:13 The controversy 4:50 The problem with the stats 6:29 How Germanic is English? 8:00 How French is English? 9:55 Etymology challenge 15:40 Non Indo-European words 16:01 Real names and words unknown 16:59 Obscure and technical words 17:34 More about words 18:43 Conclusions ..If you are a grammar lover you might be interested in our new range of grammarian merchandise exclusive to LetThemTalkTV https://teespring.com/stores/my-store... We go deeper #LetThemTalkTV #ZeitgeistBanana #grammarian Listen to the Zeitgeist Banana podcast here.    / @zeitgeistbanana2356   Subscribe here http://www.youtube.com/user/letthemta...