And here was me thinking that it was simply a sophisticated overlay
of Norman French over Old English (Anglo Saxon - Wessex dialect) with
a bit of residual Norse, settling into Middle English (Chaucerian,
just before the great vowel shift).
Maaaate there's bugger all Gaelic/Erse/Welsh in standard English to
my knowledge except in places where it's still spoke or was.
Certainly there's some frisian but that's a northern Dutch language,
not Danish and the Norse came in pre-1066.
What's your source for this rather eccentric analysis?
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
'Whan thet Eprill wuth hees showres soote
The drouchte of Merch hath perced t' the rowte
Und bathed ivrey vyne un swiche licour,
Of whuch vertue ingendered es the flowr; "
Chaucer, c.1380
Very timely. And about as close to the pronunciation as I can
reasonably get.
On 02/04/2007, at 6:26 PM, Scott Peden wrote:
> So they devised a trade language, made up of words from all the
> languages
> that were in common usage. This is how English got started. Where
> was this?
> Edinburgh Scotland, Londonderry England, and Londonderry Ireland
> and Dublin
> Ireland. That is 1 part British Saxon, 1 parts Scots Gaelic, 2
> parts Irish
> Gaelic and who knows what percentage of the Danish Frisian
> linguistics.
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