History Repeats Itself

I was proven wrong after seeing the second episode of The Story of English. It seems we'll be covering everything the English language has gone through. We can see similarities between languages as they share the same roots. Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese all come from latin making it easy for native speakers of one latin decedent language to learn another. Though, where did English come from. Well the good friends from Northern Europe helped colonized the celtics in Britain and bringing up what today we consider the most widely spoken language in the world. The Anglo-saxons just had to kill some natives and claim the land theres but it was worth it. Hey haven't we seen that in another occasion?

After six-hundred years after the Anglo-saxon's conquered Britain, The British Empire conquered North America. English has made a transition between location to location. Although the english spoken in North America isn't as distant from Britain as it was from Britain to the Saxon's, we still see some differences. Words such as "color" in North America is written "colour" in Britain. There are tons of other examples. I would like to see if North Americans will some day introduce english to other parts and see the change it has. Oh wait, they already have.

The Story of English. Dir. Robert MacNeil, Robert McCrum, and William Cran. BBC, 1986. 27 Aug. 2009. Web. 13 Jan. 2013.