Excellent! I highly recommend this series. Very interesting presentation and approach to history. And you’ll get to hear a little Middle and Old English.
http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
Geoffrey Chaucer was one of the few poets of the Middle Ages to explore the vulgar side of English and the connection between the common people and their language. The Miller's Tale exemplifies this style. In this episode, we explore the history of swearing and obscenities, and we examine Chaucer's use of bawdy language in the Miller's Tale.
[...]Source: History of English
In this bonus episode, Kevin interviews Allan Metcalf about his new book, “The Life of Guy: Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Unlikely History of an Indispensable Word.”
[...]Source: History of English