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The Adventure of English is a British television series (ITV) on the history of the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg as well as a companion book, also written by Bragg. The series ran in 2003. The series and the book are cast as an adventure story, or the biography of English as if it were a living being, covering the history of the language from its modest beginnings around 500 AD as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its rise as a truly established global language. In the... full article at wikipedia

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  • Nov 30, 2003
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Created by Metaweb Oct 23, 2006
Last edited by skud Aug 21, 2008

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