does English actually come from England? (surprising!)
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Published 2024-07-03
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All Comments (21)
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Remember everyone, English is like LASAGNA (spelled 'lasagna' in the US and 'lasagne' in the UK, add that to your list of fun facts).
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The English Language met with all the other languages, and mugged them, and took the words it wanted. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Why 'Black Plague'? It was always 'The Black Death' when I were a nipper.
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I love that one of the “poshest” English words “smashing” when meaning very good or even excellent, comes from the Gaelic phrase “Is math sin” (pronounced s’ ma-shin) which means “That is good”. It was brought to England from soldiers who trained in the Western Isles and the Highlands of Scotland.
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Well, English certainly comes from English. Over centuries it was developed from the language of the original anglo- saxons BUT was changed beyond recognition from what the first 5th century invaders from Germanic lands spoke. The grammar has changed dramatically. A huge of French/ Latin words have been added. To say that English doesn't come from England is like saying French doesn't come from France. Or Spanish from Spain. See how silly it gets.
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4 Tribes - Angles, Saxon, Jutes, and Frisians - and Old English is most closely related to Frisian ... Stir in Norse, Old Norman French, and add a bit of Latin, spice with Dutch as a trade language, then borrow words from many languages, and you get modern English
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English = 8 languages in a trench coat.
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Why would anyone complain about calling it British English as it merely clarifies the version of English being used.
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Technically every language is part of a wider connected family of languages. Virtually every language has loan words from other languages. Turkish for instance has a surprising amount of French words.
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The great vowel shift sounds like the consequences of a dodgy lasagne ( lasagna ) An interesting little talk .
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The Gaelic (Irish, Scots, Manx). Celtic (Welsh, Cornish, Breton), Germanic (Angle, Saxon, Jute, Danish, Norwegian) and Romance (Latin, French etc) languages that contributed to early and middle English are all branches of an even older linguistic family called Proto-Indo-European. There are a few European languages that don't have this connection, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and Basque. Finnish and Estonian are closely related and more distantly related to Hungarian, while Basque is a completely separate language that doesn't appear to be associated with any other and is thought to be extremely ancient.
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Ombudsmann is a word used in Danish Norwegian, Swedish, German & English.
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But the old Anglo-Saxon English is itself derived from earlier proto Indo-European language (as is Sanskrit, Hindi and Greek, etc) so this process of saying something doesn't exist because it's derived from something else can go on infinitely right back to when human beings first learned how to speak, and probably even that can be traced to the gruntings of primates and such, so it basically becomes a matter of defining where something began according to your individual preference and in that respect modern English as spoken today comes from England or rather the British Isles .
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Jutes also settled in Hampshire and the isle of Wight.😊
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The reason I don't like "British English" is because English English is quite a lot different from Scottish English.
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:hand-pink-waving::face-blue-smiling:Modern English spoken and taught around the world is because of Britain, the most influential language in the modern world, and it is still evolving! Strangely, French was the official language of England from 1066 until 1362 but for such a romanticized language🙄.......practical English still made an immanent comeback and then some. :face-blue-smiling:IMO "Modern English" is the "de facto" language of Britain, not just England.
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The thing is if you need to differentiate versions of English, then adapting the name that the language is named for seems wrong. Also given that most people speaking of 'British English' are not talking about that used normally in Wales, Scotland or NI, then at least it should be 'English, English.
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Words such as Knife come from a Norwegian heritage. We dont pronounce the K but that is how you would of pronounced it originally. There is also a great shift going on, on multimedia platforms such as YouTube. Its called the great bowl shift and its where people talk BS most of the time.🙄
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What some people call "modern English" began in the Shakespearian era. The word modern is confusing now to many people after 400 years, it has nothing to do with todays' modernity. Old English still has an influence on base words we use every day. Such as go get bring and words that describe what we do every day. Incidentally "here" in the Anglo Saxon chronicles means "army". This confuses many people who try to read the chronicles.
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You missed out Chaucer. Very important bloke not just for his naked antics in A Knights Tale. He wrote in English when it was unfashionable to do so.
