{"id":2278,"date":"2013-11-21T19:18:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T00:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2013-11-21T19:18:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T00:18:30","slug":"animated-history-of-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/2013\/11\/21\/animated-history-of-the-english-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Animated history of the English language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled onto this gem on Facebook the other day and thought I would share. \u00a0Very entertaining.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"0af693280ddb325a841c0cf2c0104fed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/history-the-arts\/culture\/english-language\/the-history-english-ten-minutes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Via OpenLab<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-textannotation-id=\"cafad2fd3f6c44e1cb2d76943b609e0d\"><p>Where did the phrase &#8216;a wolf in sheep&#8217;s clothing&#8217; come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts? Voiced by Clive Anderson, this entertaining romp through &#8216;The History of English&#8217; squeezes 1600 years of history into 10 one-minute bites, uncovering the sources of English words and phrases from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to America and the Internet. Bursting with fascinating facts, the series looks at how English grew from a small tongue into a major global language before reflecting on the future of English in the 21st century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2279\" alt=\"antique-typewriter-keys\" src=\"http:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/antique-typewriter-keys.jpg\" width=\"554\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2013\/11\/antique-typewriter-keys.jpg 615w, https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2013\/11\/antique-typewriter-keys-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/this-animated-history-of-the-english-language-is-wonder-1464423756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Article that led me to the video.<\/a><br \/>\nAntique Typewriter Keys by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicdomainpictures.net\/browse-author.php?a=39567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Holly\u00a0Chaffin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled onto this gem on Facebook the other day and thought I would share. \u00a0Very entertaining. Via OpenLab: Where did the phrase &#8216;a wolf in sheep&#8217;s clothing&#8217; come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts? Voiced by Clive Anderson, this entertaining romp through &#8216;The History of English&#8217; squeezes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/bemis3lf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}