<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 30 Nov 2012, at 14:34, Patrick Juola <<a href="mailto:juola@mathcs.duq.edu">juola@mathcs.duq.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">There's a well-attested history of English and the rest of the Germanic languages that puts English fairly firmly in the West Germanic family along with Frisian and Saxon, and at a greater distance, Dutch and standard German.</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div>I make no claim to be fit to enter this debate, but I feel it worthwhile to mention Stephen Oppenheimer's "<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The Origins of the British</span>" which<div><br></div><div><h1 class="parseasinTitle" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><font size="3"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>… demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the English gene pool. Two thirds of the English people reveal an unbroken line of genetic descent from south-western Europeans arriving long before the first farmers. The bulk of the remaining third arrived between 7,000 and 3,000 years ago as part of long-term north-west European trade and immigration, especially from Scandinavia - and may have brought with them the earliest forms of English language.</font></h1><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">Whether it does so demonstrate, I (as noted) am not not qualified to say!</font></div><div>
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