{"id":1477,"date":"2012-05-13T14:18:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T14:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2012-05-13T14:18:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T14:18:51","slug":"history-of-the-english-language-from-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/13\/history-of-the-english-language-from-1943\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the English language &#8211; from 1943"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve recently been hearing a lot about the English language \u2013 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/20\/david-crystals-english-in-100-words\/  \">David Crystal\u2019s English in 100 words<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/the-history-of-english-in-10-minutes\/ \">Open University\u2019s history of English in 10 minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But what did they think about the language back in 1943? A newly released film from the British Film Council\u2019s Collection showcases the multiculturalism of English and describes its origins. You can view and download the film <a href=\"http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/history-of-the-english-language \">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the film originally included more focus on the Germanic aspects of the language \u2013 as it was wartime however, these were cut, citing \u201ctime constraints\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve recently been hearing a lot about the English language \u2013 from David Crystal\u2019s English in 100 words to the Open University\u2019s history of English in 10 minutes. But what did they think about the language back in 1943? A newly released film from the British Film Council\u2019s Collection showcases the multiculturalism of English and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[3,813,1008,25],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-english","tag-english","tag-english-language","tag-language-history","tag-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}