So the thing about this tweet that everyone keeps sending me is that both it and the replies are wrong in these super boring and nuanced ways so it isn't even fun to dunk on because it is full. So I will give some highlights and then go for a Sunday jaunt.https://twitter.com/johnpauldickson/status/1278997229068406789 …
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I mean the average student at York would be at the Cathedral school and would likely have two, possibly three languages. They would have middle English, Latin, and maybe in York some kind of Danish or possibly French. Plenty of students speak that many languages now.
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It would have been Old English in 800, and maybe only a bit of Greek. In terms of other vernaculars I am unsure what was fully developed and being written other than Old Irish, which some may have known too, if they were from Ireland or studied there.
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