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by jschveibinz 55 days ago
You'd probably enjoy "The Story of English" series:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D54D1C7DAE31B36&si=Kw3J...

or "The History of English" series:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV50II2XzmY-9GLZWAuieOp27...

In the second series, there is a weather report in Frisian that vaguely sounds like English.

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I suspect a lot of people in the UK today would pronounce "brown cow" as "broon coo" - certainly I would have when I was a wee loon ;-)