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Re: question - Turco-Japanese (British Vikings, 400 AD)

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 24, 2004, 13:21
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. -- /BP 8^) -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)

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