English Documentary

Feb 22, 2008 at 12:51 PM
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I didn't get to see the entire show called "The Joy of Lex" which was shown, I think, on the History Channel. Maybe they'll bring it back. If you have a thing for word origins and how language develops and changes you'll want to try and record it.

It reminded me a lot of the series that PBS did a long time ago called The Story of English which covered everything from Chaucer to modern Rap to accents, dialects and colloquialisms. Fun stuff! Too bad I can't find the series on Netflix.

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You may have read it; but if not then I would recommend, Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss. This is a witty yet educational book about punctuation. There is a lot more drama to the comma than one would think.