Re: All-verb (was: Look ma, No verbs!)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 20, 1999, 2:38 |
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Gary Shannon wrote:
> I read somewhere that as far back as AD 400 the Angels and Saxons were
> fanatically monolingual.
Well, they certainly borrowed quite a bit from Latin, and possibly a few
words from the Celtic languages of Britain.
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