On 18/07/17 16:27, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:38:48 -0400, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com>
declaimed the following:
Define "native" then. My interpretation of "native English words" is
"anything you wouldn't have to put in italics to use in a sentence".
Which would also include "continuum".
Probably would have to go to words predating the Roman occupation
(which probably means a dialect closer to Welsh or other Gaelic).
Everything later is an import (anglo-saxon being germanic tribes invading
south, Vikings in the central area, as I recall southern Irish displacing
Picts in Scotland, and then the Norman French (themselves starting from
Vikings ["nor(se)man"]).
Sorry, but even the Gaels/Gauls were invaders :-)
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