Discovering Language: How English Borrowed Words

Duration: 9

Year Published: 1973

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Copyright: Registered 1Feb73 · MP24224 (Jul-Dec 1973) Copyright holder: Coronet Instructional Materials, a division of Esquire, Inc

Description: Presents a young man dressed as a colonial Englishman who is carrying a symbolic sack of words that the English colonists brought to America and explains their origins. Shows words borrowed from Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, Latin, and Greek as a result of wars, invasions, exploration, and scientific development.

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