https://museumhack.com/english-language-changed/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:19:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://museumhack.com/english-language-changed/#comment-9995 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:03:28 +0000 https://museumhack.com/?p=15168#comment-9995 Nonsense to say the English started speaking French after the Battle of Hastings. The Norman invaders did not impose their language on the. English except at official levels. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle a unique record in English of contemporary events continued in English until 1154, nearly a century after Hastings. There were Latinate borrowings many of which came from church Latin before 1066 and of course there were insertions from the Normans who were themselves Vikings who adopted French. The English language was enriched by these but certainly not replaced and remains to this day recognised by linguists, as it was then, a member of the West Germanic family of languages alongside Dutch and German and is certainly not in the Latin family which includes French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian. Only a d*ckead would think it did.

]]> https://museumhack.com/english-language-changed/#comment-9690 Sun, 12 Jul 2020 14:46:48 +0000 https://museumhack.com/?p=15168#comment-9690 Loved the article! I don’t normally laugh when reading history.

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