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I don't know, could it also be because what became England was pretty romanised before the Saxon influence began in earnest?
by jacobush 10y ago
I don't know, could it also be because what became England was pretty romanised before the Saxon influence began in earnest?
- pacaro 10y agoWell the word Octopus was invented from the whole cloth by Linnaeus, presumably inspired by applying the prefix for eight, to the Ancient Greek work for an octopus which was "polypous"