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By Susan Miles Gulbransen, Noozhawk Columnist | @noozhawknews
May 19, 2021
| 7:06 p.m.
The March column “What’s Behind English Words?” looked back on one of the craziest, complicated languages. Several specific responses attracted my attention. Many quotes are included below. May these informative thoughts add to your curiosity.
Early English started in the fifth century, but today’s version formed during William Shakespeare’s time in the 1600s. It rates among the highest of 6,500 languages around the world with 1.132 billion English speakers, slightly above the next three: Mandarin Chinese, Hindi and Spanish.
English has more than a million words with about a thousand added each year from other languages such as French, Latin, Italian, German, Dutch and Anglo-Saxon. Words often have ongoing changes, but many have become archaic, unused words.
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“A more intelligent way is to pose new questions. Take one example: the 19th century read fifth century Thucydides writing the great historian of the Peloponnesian war for insights into politics and strategy. In the 20th century, we experienced the effects of total warfare. Suddenly historians were paying more attention to those passages where Thucydides describes the psychological and moral deterioration that results from prolonged warfare. Nobody made anything up information for both points of view has always been there. That makes Thucydides a great historian. Each age has simply keyed in on passages that were more relevant to their lived experience.”