White nationalists say "We speak English in England!" Medievalists reply, "Since when?" In our last article of 2019, eminent professor Jocelyn Wogan-Brown makes a bold claim: the English language and English people have never been monocultural.https://www.publicmedievalist.com/multicultural-english/ …
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Replying to @PublicMedieval @GoingMedieval
I mean yeah, like half of the English words are just morphed old Norse
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There’s plenty of ON but it’s not half. Old English would account for a majority along with Norman French. There are many cognate words though between OE and ON.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @KnightlyTim and
Not to mention Greek, Arabic, various Celtic languages, etc.
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