19 Nov
2005
19 Nov
'05
21:38
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Kevan,
On Saturday 19 November 2005 05:30, Kevanf1 wrote:
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I sometimes wonder how many people actually realise that English, spoken all over the world, is actually derived from ancient Germanic languages.
English (as spoken all over the world) is the biggest mutt of a language ever (and I love it). It has roots or strong influences from languages of the British Isles, Northern Europe, French, Latin, Greek and even Arabic. The French influence from the Norman conquests gave English its horse-of-a-different-color vowel scheme.
Those Normans are, in fact, Norse who had been in France for many years. It really Gauls a lot of people to hear it called "French". ;-)