You'd probably enjoy "The Story of English" series:

jschveibinz • today at 2:35 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

or "The History of English" series:

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

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 ;-)

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