English rootsEnglish is a language with its roots in conflict.English roots
The Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians, fighting westward through the decaying Roman Empire, then into Britain as mercenaries against the Picts - then against their patrons, the Britons, displacing those Celtic kingdoms that had lived there before, settling in their former lands. Words seeping from the conquered into the conquerors; echoes of people no longer seen nor heard.
Christianity, from the Irish, and literacy - the slow adaptation of the Latin of the liturgy to the vulgar Old English tongue, and the painstaking, plodding path to scholarship and knowledge. Scr
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