The Brunch Table

2/24/2007

Hoe nu, bruin koe

Filed under: — Nick @ 2:07 pm

Here’s a wonderful clip from the BBC’s Mongrel Nation, a series of educational shorts in which Eddie Izzard illustrates an episode from British history by placing himself in some kind of embarassing public situation.

In this one, he explores the common ancestry of Germanic languages by first learning some phrases in Old English and then visiting the Netherlands to try them out on a Frisian Dutch person.

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