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The fate of English

January 26, 2009 - 3:17 am - by Richard Fernandez
Roderick Reilly
2009-01-26 12:01:21

I’m bastardizing the history here I’m sure, but I understand that Old English started out as a pidgin trading dialect between Anglo-Saxons and Danes when the Danes occupied the Danelaw.

I also read that the effect of French on Old English after the Norman invasion is exagerrated.