The Potential of Words: Recent Episodes
Jessica Brett-Caccia
A light-hearted exploration of the wild and wacky world of the English language, from its complicated past to its mixed up present and all the beautiful implications in between. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/potential-of-words/support
An exploration of the power of names, for people and for trade marks.
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The most exciting part of language: lexicography! How dictionaries came about, evolved, and help define our world, as well as the power of the people over what goes into them.
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Middle English is almost another language, so how did it become the language we speak today? What do Americans and Shakespeare have in common? All these things, and the harmful myth of the 'native English accent'.
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More personal anecdotes, the part that fables play in teaching social reasoning, and why I before e is a ridiculous rule.
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Some of the facts and analogies that started and have sustained my love for English over the years. From the Germanic sounds of Beowulf to today's language that borrows from everywhere, English has grown a lot - and inspired a lot of people, including myself. -=- Beowulf reading courtesy of Heiðniborg, read by Sveinn Ullarson from the Old Norse Tongue Project. -=- Reading from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales courtesy of the wonderful Banned Books Uncensored, run by the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom -=- Theme Tune composed by Craig Harris https://www.craigharrismusic.ca/
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