OFF: English (was Mountain Grill)

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jill Strobridge" <jill.strobridge at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK>
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Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: English (was Mountain Grill)


> Seems to have come full circle then!     Since I understand that
> Sanskrit is the closest there is to a root language for all the
> Indo-European languages including Celtic.    Celtic of course
> evolving into two families British/Welsh/Breton(& Cornish? - can't
> remember offhand)  and Irish/Scottish gaelic.    Admittedly very
> little (if any) British/Welsh gaelic has survived into spoken
> English but I think that British 'P' Celtic/Gaelic associations can
> still be found in place and landscape names - though mostly in the
> West.   To be honest I need a placename directory or something to
> be able to give convincing examples but I'd suggest Penrith is one.
>
> jill
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Pearson" <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 7:38 PM
> Subject: Re: OFF: English (was Mountain Grill)
>
>
>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:07:58 +0000, Carl Edlund Anderson
>> <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
>> wrote:
>>>Still, as languages go, English has been extremely flexible in
>>>absorbing
>>>vocabulary from just about anything it can find :)
>>
>> With the most recent large-scale absorbtion probably being from
>> Hindu
>> during the 18th/19th-century occupation of India (thug, pundit,
>> etc.)?
>>
>>    -Doug
>>     jasret at mindspring.com
>>
>>
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