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   From: rimagen@toast.net   
      
   Steve Morrison wrote:   
      
   > Troels Forchhammer wrote:   
   >   
   >> It will, of course, not come as a surprise to anyone who has   
   >> experienced the many Scand language threads in RABT & AFT  :-)   
   >>   
   >>     The language that is now called English is actually   
   >>     Scandinavian, says a Norwegian linguist.   
   >   
   > This Language Log post:   
   >   
   > http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4351   
   >   
   > offers some reasons for skepticism.   
      
   And here is another LL post with links:   
      
   http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4355   
      
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