English is suffering an identity crisis.
It was born out of the tongues of the Germanic tribes who once swept across Britain. Yet now, it has a vocabulary dominated by French and Latin terms.
Is English still Germanic?
Let's see: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PCE4C9GvqI0
It was born out of the tongues of the Germanic tribes who once swept across Britain. Yet now, it has a vocabulary dominated by French and Latin terms.
Is English still Germanic?
Let's see: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PCE4C9GvqI0
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ROMAN - SAXON
parent - mother, father
residence - house
abdomen - belly
position - job
All our profanity is just Saxon terms for the body and its functions.