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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Lexicon" 2009.10.30 (02) [EN]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Re one of the "Native English" words, "outgang" for "exit"; we already
have, and regularly use "way out", which is totally Germanic in words,
if not form.
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<div>Whether this sort of analytic assembly, rather than typical
Germanic compounding, can be laid at the door of the Normans is a moot
point. The language on its island was always going to drift away from
its Continental relatives, Normans or not. Also "exit" can hardly be
blamed on the Normans either; most of them were as ignorant of Latin as
the English. Quite possibly the Church Latin influence would have
happened anyway. If it is Church Latin at all; the vast majority of
Latin borrowings in English are 16th C and later and come from the use
of that language for international scientific communication. By then
the descendents of the Normans were all completely English-speaking, so
their influence can have nothing to do with it.
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<div>Paul</div></div></div></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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