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Subject: Re: Susan starts posting

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Deadly Ernest

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Date Posted: 19:50:01 11/04/12 Sun
In reply to: Allen 's message, "Re: Susan starts posting" on 20:57:43 11/03/12 Sat

>>
>>Germanic people known as Saxons, Angles and Danes had
>>been in England and the rest of the British Isles for
>>well over a thousand years before the Norman French
>>arrived with William the Bastard.
>
>Of course they were! What is your point? The post that
>I replied to said that the Normans spoke a Germanic
>language, which by 1066 was not so, they spoke Norman
>French, as is still spoken in Normandy & Louisiana!
>
>Allen

G'day,

The statement you responded to was talking about what the English spoke, not the French -

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Oh, and let me not forget that prior to the invasion of England by the Normans in 1066, they also spoke a Germanic language.

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It speaks of what is spoken in England being a Germanic language prior to the Norman invasion.

Ernest

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