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Many Latin words entered old english in the 500 years that Rome occupied England and Wales.
by bwanab 10y ago
Many Latin words entered old english in the 500 years that Rome occupied England and Wales.
- DonaldFisk 10y agoThe Romans occupied southern Britain from 43AD to 410AD. During this time, British was spoken here, not English. Its direct descendants are Welsh, Breton and Cornish, not Modern English. Anglo-Saxon settlement of what is now England didn't start until approximately 450AD, and so Old English would not have been spoken here until then.