XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.language.latin   
   From: nobody@home.com   
      
   In article ,   
   hayesstw@telkomsa.net says...   
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   > On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 22:58:09 +0100, Janet  wrote:   
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   > >In article ,   
   > >ed@somewhere.in.the.uk says...   
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   > >> I can't help but wonder how to account for that, since, when Latin was   
   > >> the lingua franca of European education, German scholars used it too.   
   > >> But Germany had never become a Roman province; unlike Spain, France,   
   > >> Britain.   
   > >   
   > >   Quite aside from Roman occupation,  Latin was the   
   > >language of the  Catholic Church and many legal documents.   
   >   
   > I don't think either of those had much influence on English.   
      
     Something tells me you haven't read   
      
     Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_History_of_th   
   e_English_People   
      
      
      Janet   
      
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