Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English language.

This is Episode 165, Glamorous Grammar.

In this episode, we're going to look at the first attempt to describe the grammar of English

in 1586.

It may seem surprising that an English grammar had not been composed prior to this point,

but that's because the term grammar wasn't typically applied to languages like English.

Grammar was synonymous with Latin, and for the most part, the only grammar to speak

of was Latin grammar.

So when the concept was applied to English, it was done by applying that Latin framework

to English, and we're still living with the consequences to this day.

In this episode, we'll explore those developments, and we'll examine how they impacted the modern

rules of English grammar.

But before we begin, let me remind you that the website for the podcast is historyofenglishpodcast.com,

and you can sign up to support the podcast and get bonus episodes at patreon.com slash

history of English.

And let me also make a quick plug here at the beginning of the episode.

For all of you who have listened to the entire podcast series and enjoyed the earlier discussion

about old English and the Anglo-Saxon period of England, I wanted to let you know that

there's a relatively new podcast dedicated to that period, called, appropriately enough,

the Anglo-Saxon England podcast.

So check that out if you want a more detailed look at the period.

And since I'm plugging podcasts about Anglo-Saxon England, I should once again mention David

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