The Adventure of English (2003)

Season 1 Episode 6

Speaking Proper

0.05 / Nov / 2003•65m

In eighteenth century Britain, the first English dictionary was produced. A cohort of grammarians imposed new rules on the language. English continued to change and develop and the way people talked and the words they used became a badge of class and breeding and social death could result from dropping an ‘h’ or using an inappropriate word.

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