The Story of English: Words, Spelling and Origins

The high-demand essentials: why English spelling is broken, where new words come from, what even counts as a word — TED-Ed, RobWords, Storied, WIRED and Melvyn Bragg's Planet Word.

Playlist by @birth_of_dictionary

12 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The War that Changed the English Language - Mini-Wars #3 — OverSimplified
2. Where did English come from? - Claire Bowern — TED-Ed
3. Why Are Bad Words Bad? — Vsauce
4. What Counts as a Word? — Tom Scott
5. How languages steal words from each other — Tom Scott
6. Linguist Answers Word Origin Questions | Tech Support | WIRED — WIRED
7. ANGLISH: English without the 'foreign' bits — RobWords
8. The entire history of English in 22 minutes — RobWords
9. The Screwed-Up History of English Spelling | Otherwords — Storied
10. A history of mad attempts to fix English spelling — RobWords
11. Stephen Fry's Planet Word episode 1 Babel — Planet Fry
12. The Interesting Etymology Behind 70 Words | Mental Floss — Mental Floss