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I am English, and that has made me cringe! (suppo.fi)

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[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 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.)