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Old 28-Sep-2006, 09:01
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Default Re: English language history

It may involve less page-turning if you visit http://www.etymonline.com/ . Or maybe there's a web-site that is devoted just to Celtic - have a browse.

A rather less sterile/onerous approach would be to try a book such as Stephenson (ed.) Words or Robert McCrum's The Roots of English. I believe Melvyn Bragg wrote a similar book more recently.

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