Fabulous podcast. Fascinating how we can use pronunciation shifts to date the arrival of a word into English, and how some words have entered the language mult

Fabulous podcast. Fascinating how we can use pronunciation shifts to date the arrival of a word into English, and how some words have entered the language multiple times by different routes. Also, I learned that there really was a castle in a swamp, in Wessex, to which King Alfred retreated during a particularly heavy Viking invasion.