The Donelson Files - March 27, 2025

The Donelson Files - March 27, 2025

Host, Tom Donelson, and guest, Katharine Donelson — who has a PHD and is a linguist, who teaches general Humanities at the University of Nevada at Reno and who has given presentations including all over the globe including the in Netherlands and Estonia — discuss the history of the English language, the impact of Vikings, Germans, and Romans through Latin on English, Old English and how it evolved into Middle English to the present, the impact of the Norman invasion on English, the impact on social media on future English, the differences in English around the world — India, Great Britain and United States, the influence of Spanish on American English, how Muslim immigrants in Great Britain impacts English in there, and how language impacts history and how history impacts language.