# 131. English Language

An episode of [Undeceptions with John Dickson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1478239058), 28 Jul 2024, 59 min.

Audio: https://p.podderapp.com/4167409313/media.transistor.fm/69227290/6f358ae1.mp3

Half a billion people alive today speak English as their first language. But how you speak English depends on where you live, where you come from, and how it was taught to you. It's truly a universal language. So - what's its history? If this is the language that has done the most to spread Christianity (as some claim), how have its quirks influenced our understanding of the Bible?

## Chapters

- 0:00 Intro
- 9:31 Old English
- 12:28 Beowulf
- 16:30 Middle English
- 18:54 Geoffrey Chaucer
- 23:42 The Printing Press
- 25:08 The Bible in English
- 27:28 Early Modern English
- 32:59 The codification of English
- 33:40 The Dictionary
- 37:37 The Prodigal Son
- 38:46 5 Minute Jesus
- 44:09 English gobbles up other languages
- 47:47 The Flexibility of English
- 54:16 Grammar

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