We’ll be looking at Germanic and French invasions, the impact of a period of history called the Great Vowel Shift and ...
This journey of Greek influences to English clearly shows how languages evolve and influence each other even to this day.
In 1582, Richard Mulcaster, headmaster of the Merchant Tailors’ school, wrote that “our English tung is of small reatch, it stretcheth no further than this Iland of ours”. It didn’t stay that way.