The Adventure of English Season 1 Episode 5 English in America 2003
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Following the English language on its journey overseas and tracing the story of how the language of the British Isles became a language for the world - the most widely spoken and understood vernacular in history. In America the language of a small group of seventeenth-century English immigrants only survived through the most unlikely coincidence – but America was to develop a vigorous new vocabulary, and to spread it around the globe.
- Released: 2003-11-20
- Runtime: 65 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Melvyn Bragg
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- Source: CWR-CRB
