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There was a UK TV show years ago that I've always remembered where the presenter tried to buy a cow using Old English with a Frisian speaking farmer in Holland:
by helsinkiandrew 6mo ago
There was a UK TV show years ago that I've always remembered where the presenter tried to buy a cow using Old English with a Frisian speaking farmer in Holland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34
- gilleain 6mo ago'The presenter' here being Eddie Izzard :)
- jschveibinz 6mo agoYou'd probably enjoy "The Story of English" series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D54D1C7DAE31B36&si=Kw3JUDhM9Euomnr5 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D54D1C7DAE31B36&si=Kw3J... or "The History of English" series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV50II2XzmY-9GLZWAuieOp27mZUQfKnj&si=MxDVgrm_ML8_LU48 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV50II2XzmY-9GLZWAuieOp27... In the second series, there is a weather report in Frisian that vaguely sounds like English.
- arethuza 6mo agoI suspect a lot of people in the UK today would pronounce "brown cow" as "broon coo" - certainly I would have when I was a wee loon ;-)