With the same style and humor that has attracted 4.5 million downloads of the podictionary podcast, the audio book Global Wording tells the story of our language using easy milestones like Beowulf, William the Conqueror, Chaucer and Shakespeare.

Don’t worry about dates and boring facts, Global Wording instead tells about why these characters were so memorable, as well as how we know what we know and what life was like long ago as it affected the growth of our language.

Listen to a sample or two:

William Caxton was fat and happy, until…

Those pesky Vikings…

Charles Hodgson’s Global Wording is available as a downloadable purchase at:

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