{"id":5668,"date":"2011-11-26T08:36:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T13:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2016-11-26T07:46:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T12:46:44","slug":"the-history-of-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=5668","title":{"rendered":"The history of English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all, it&#8217;s the Angry Systems Administrator. I&#8217;ve been rather busy and haven&#8217;t posted much of late, but I saw this little Youtube video and thought I should put it up as a public service. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The video is titled &#8220;The History of English in 10 minutes&#8221; and it is both humorous\u00a0and\u00a0educational. It shows the roots of English as a Celtic\/Germanic language and how it borrowed from virtually every other language on Earth to become what it is today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtuber youtube=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=njJBw2KlIEo&#8217;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I hope you enjoyed my lesson in the History of English. Obviously there is a lot more to it than you can learn in 10 minutes. The last I heard, the English language had over 600,000 words. (I can seem Mrs. Webmaster&#8217;s head exploding now. &#8220;600,000? To many! I go back to China!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thank you and have a good weekend. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>~The Angry Systems Administrator~<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[yasr_visitor_votes size=&#8221;large&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all, it&#8217;s the Angry Systems Administrator. I&#8217;ve been rather busy and haven&#8217;t posted much of late, but I saw this little Youtube video and thought I should put it up as a public service. \ud83d\ude09 <a href=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=5668\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,32,5,6,62],"tags":[5,6,31],"class_list":["post-5668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general","category-history","category-humor","category-reviews","tag-history","tag-humor","tag-youtube"],"views":1108,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24157,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=24157","url_meta":{"origin":5668,"position":0},"title":"This is who runs the EU?","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"May 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"No wonder the British decided it was time to take their ball and go home. 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