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A Gift of Words from Pillagers & Ransackers

This entry was posted in babble, quirk, serious and tagged English, history of language, language, new words, Normans, Romans, Saxons, Vikings on September 18, 2013 by Laura Ellis .
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English is a mishmash of all the languages that have influenced it over thousands of years. Although Britain has done more than her fair share of conquering and ruling invading about 90% of the world in one way or another, so too have the British Isles been subject to invasion after invasion. From the Romans(…)

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