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Rusty_Hinge wrote:
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So it wasn't
just the incoming English who failed to learn to speak much of the
preceding occupants' language, it was everyone else who moved into
celtic lands too.

And if the language(s) was/were written as well as spoken, no wonder!

They weren't - the written form was invented by a missionary whose
mother tongue was not a Celtic language, as far as I know - you may
make what deductions you want from that :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.