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I'm really enjoying The History of English Podcast which covers this. It's about the English language along with all the history along the way.

• gumby 3y ago
  Do they try to use appropriate pronunciation?
  • timeagain 3y ago
    Appropriate for what? The podcast covers soooo much and attempts to catalog all influences from proto-indo-European onward, with a focus on shared word origins and phonetic changes over time. So some of the pronunciation is speculative reconstruction.
    • gumby 3y ago
      That's what I meant: pronunciation (as best as can be reconstructed) of a word being discussed in a historical context.
      • toasterlovin 3y ago
        Yup, the host goes into that. It covers from the Indo-Europeans up to Shakespeare (where the podcast is at currently). To get an idea of the show's perspective, the host is something of an amateur linguist and historian. So it's the historical and linguistic reasons that English is the way it is. All time great podcast, IMO.