Re: 18th century tankards


"Graeme Wall" <Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i en meddelelse
news:8f91232b4f%Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In message <4f29a5ec87john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
John Cartmell <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <7tgqf3pjpjb8mgbfsao4tc4v1vrgm8uc1m@xxxxxxx>,
Don Aitken <don-aitken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Latin had two uses in Britain; it was the language of command in the
army, and it was the only *written* language. There is not a single
written word surviving in insular Celtic, which most people undoubtedly
spoke.

Doubt it. English - OK *not* just like what we speak now, but English all
the same even if the name is out of joint with time.


English didn't exist, either as a language or a people, during the Roman
era.

yes I passed this the first time

the tribal Angles, Saxons, Jutes , Friesians waited around inwhat would
beom Germany / Demark / Netherlands

before rowing across
see Nydam boat to see pre-viking technology

English / Anglish was the language of the tribe who used to be in Angeln
North Germany
welsh was their word for the bable the nativres of Brittania used
AKA Brythonic

googling for ANGELN used to be no joke
because in modern german angeln = angling as in tourism for fishermen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angeln makes life easier

"Angeln has a significance far beyond its current small area and country
terrain, in that it is believed to have been the original home of the
Angles, Germanic immigrants to northern England and East Anglia, leading to
their new homelands being named after them, England, from which the major
world language, English, takes its name."

the birthplace of his language is not as famous as Shakespeare's own
yet

Hugh W







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