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   From: me@privacy.net   
      
   On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:23:16 -0000, "Walker"    
   wrote:   
      
   >To Fitlikeman. Sorry about top posting, but Cumbric never really "died",   
   >many Cumbric words exist in Scots and even standard English, as well as in   
   >place-names.   
      
   You'd be hard pressed to list more than a hundred that aren't place   
   names or dialect.   
      
   > Also English is nothing like Anglo-Saxon/Old   
   >English/Platdeutsch or whatever else you want to call it.   
      
   Nonsense. You're frothing again. The similarities are there to see for   
   anyone who takes the trouble to learn a little about both languages.   
      
   > Ever noticed the   
   >prelieferation of Celtic auxillaries in English?   
      
   What proliferation? (I assume that's what you meant). If you are   
   talking about 'progressive' tenses (I believe linguists call them   
   'aspects' nowadays) then yes, it is possible, even probable, that they   
   are due to Celtic influence, as English is unique among the Germanic   
   languages in possessing such a feature.   
      
   >Is that how Germans speak   
   >German?   
      
   No, but German verbs closely mirror their English counterparts in most   
   other respects. Hardly surprising, given their common ancestry.   
      
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