Thanks, prof.Oddly enough Geordie is like Dorset retain Anglo Saxon where Geordie area was not really invaded by vikings, allowed an accent separately from today modern English.
European language rely heavily on book language not influenced by outsiders so very gutteral. Like the French many educated classes were for the rich while peasants used dialects.
Ours changed because the kings Alfred John James Henry wanted the people of the land in local churches to understand the bible.
Hence our American cousins pilgrims were a protestant ethos. You look at the poorer area of Americas majority are Portuguese and Spanish Catholic.
While Monks from Europe Empirical popes taught Latin Greek to the kings and his ilk. While English laws was subjugated to French introduced by Normans the peasants retain Anglo Saxon laws of the lands.
The best thing English did was to take the Protestant ethos from Europe and develop a solid backbone spanning several centuries from Watt Tyler earlier maybe form of Luddites peasants revolt of the Dutch and German. While Catholic yoke was more dominant in Europe, the British was changing.
When is your next lecture? I want to be sure to sign up for the course!!
