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From: morganb@ecid.cig.mot.com (Bernard T Morgan)
Subject: Re: Scots and English (was: Re: Flemish and Dutch)
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In article <3ph342$o3m@clarknet.clark.net>, (*Expletive Deleted*) thedavid@clark.net () writes:
> 
> 
> What I don't get is the equation of Scottish with Germanic.
> Unless one means "Scottish English," I'd thought Scots was
> Gaelic--i.e. Celtic. Please enlighten.

It use to be but then it got replaced with English, 
what every English really is?

> 
> Also I'm not quite sure if English can any longer be
> classified as Germanic. Rather damn Latinate in it's
> vocabulary, ain't it?

For about 300 hundred years the English where mere serfs in there own
land. Ruled over by French speaking Frank invaders (Normans, Bretons,
Flemish and another Frankish noble looking for land.) The hundred years
war and the Black death brought opportunity of the English to regain 
positions of power, and finally with Royalty chosing that English should
be the language of the court, English was reborn as the language of the
nation. But it had changed becoming Frankified, some English extemists
wanted to re-Anglize it, but the effect of 300 years was to hard to remove.

French remained the offical language of the Church of England to 1715.

> 
> As for the question of the language-group most widely
> employed on that island whereon London is found, why
> not just "Insular?" Or perhaps "Islandic?"
> 
>                              David
> 
>                                 

How about Franco-German?

Bernard.
