Ray Brown wrote:
> . Their Norse language
> was one of the ingredients that contributed towards the development of
> Middle English and hence modern English. The almost universal use of -(e)s
> as the plural suffix, for example, is thought to be due to old Norse
> influence.
How could that be? There are no -s plurals in Old Norse.
Middle French is a much liklier source of influence in
this case.
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