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

> 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. Certainly their 'they' and 'them' have replaced the Old English
> _hie_ (they/them) - though the dative of the latter, _him_, still survives
> in the colloquial _'em'. They also contribute quite a lot of vocabulary to
> our language.
Not to speak of the English grammar.  It's not like _that_ came from
German, French or Latin.  It's pretty much wholesale Norse.  A Norse
friend of mine, who was on a MUD I was building for, once challenged
me to find a sentence I could say in English that required changing
the word order into Norse.

Was another language involved?

Kris.
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