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Old 29-Sep-2006, 07:53
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Default Re: why didnt latin become the spoken language of english after 597?

Good point about the language spoken in Britain at the time, but the absence of any great trace of Latin suggests to some that the contact was possibly more limited than suggested by Churchill. How genocidal were the Saxons? There are many different views of this, and we are dealing with the Dark Ages, but there are arguments taht there was more of a migration than an invasion.
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