OFF: English (was Mountain Grill)

[Jill Strobridge]

Seems to have come full circle then!     Since I understand that
Sanskrit is the closest there is to a root language for all the
Indo-European languages including Celtic.    Celtic of course
evolving into two families British/Welsh/Breton(& Cornish? - can't
remember offhand)  and Irish/Scottish gaelic.    Admittedly very
little (if any) British/Welsh gaelic has survived into spoken
English but I think that British 'P' Celtic/Gaelic associations can
still be found in place and landscape names - though mostly in the
West.   To be honest I need a placename directory or something to
be able to give convincing examples but I'd suggest Penrith is one.

jill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Pearson" <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: English (was Mountain Grill)


> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:07:58 +0000, Carl Edlund Anderson
> <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
> wrote:
>>Still, as languages go, English has been extremely flexible in
>>absorbing
>>vocabulary from just about anything it can find :)
>
> With the most recent large-scale absorbtion probably being from
> Hindu
> during the 18th/19th-century occupation of India (thug, pundit,
> etc.)?
>
>    -Doug
>     jasret at mindspring.com
>
>