Re: OT: parent languages

["David B. Kronenfeld" kfeld@xxxxxxxx]

The Romans did it to the Celtic English, before the Angles, Saxons,
etc. got there and did in whatever the Celtic English by then were
speaking (old Celtic, Latin-smashed Celtic, or Celtic-smashed
Latin). Maybe, too, the Romans and their departure had something to
do with the vulnerability of the place (military and linguistic) ?

            Cheers


At 10:07 PM 9/15/2007, you wrote:
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> We should also not forget that the last invader of the British Isles
> were the Normans in 1066, who deposited their language there. English
> has been overlayered several times. Surprising is, how little the Romans
> left behind of their tongue in the land of the Angles. A philologist
> would set us straight on these matters.