• Ben Matthews@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I explain to people here that - in modern terms - it’s mixture of french, dutch, and welsh - you forgot the celtic /gaelic root (whatever you want to call it).

    • leftzero@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I sort of forgot the Angle part of Anglo-Saxon, didn’t I…?

      (Plus, there was probably quite a bit of Latin already there before the Norse and the Norman, at least south of Hadrian’s wall, though far from enough to make Old English a Romance language… all in all English has a very complex history.)