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Myths Of British Ancestry
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| 10-2006
| Stephen Oppenheimer
Posted on 09/28/2007 7:42:35 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
My ancestry is Welsh, but I'm Viking at heart, hehehe.
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09/28/2007 8:46:02 PM PDT
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Ciexyz
To: Diego1618; William Terrell
To: Ciexyz
"My ancestry is Welsh, but I'm Viking at heart, hehehe." 'O' type blood? The highest percent of people in the world with 'O' type blood is behind Offas Dyke.
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09/28/2007 9:08:18 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
How much Anglo-Saxon is left after the French invaded in 1066? A lot. The Normans continued to speak French among the nobility, but the masses did not. The language of Chaucer's stories bear more resemblance to Beowulf than to the Chansons of France.
It is rare to find the raw guttural, monosyllabic, Germanic words in modern English. He who rules get to set the what language is spoken.
There are many, many Germanic words in English. And Latinate, and Nordic and others. English is a polyglot, which freely borrows.
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09/28/2007 9:30:35 PM PDT
by
LexBaird
(Behold, thou hast drinken of the Aide of Kool, and are lost unto Men.)
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
English borrows words from all languages, but the structure of English is closer to German than to the Romance languages.
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posted on
09/29/2007 12:51:16 AM PDT
by
Pelham
(The DREAM Act, amnesty by stealth + chain migration)
To: Peter Libra
The English school marm made history absolutely a class to be enjoyed. The kids would declare their favourites. Yes, Harold,last of the Saxons Kings, was the hero.I think I read somewhere that when J.R.R.Tolkien (wrote Lord of the Rings) was a student at Oxford, he proposed a resolution that the Norman Invasion be condemned. In addition, words from Anglo-Saxon should be used instead of those from French. He didn't like French. He became a professor of Anglo-Saxon.
One could throw into the mix, that the Welsh could claim to be an indigenous people. Hard to classify these persons with the rest of the British Isles.
I think the Welsh immigrated to the British Isles about 1000 B.C., so they really need to rethink that indigenous claim. On the other hand the word British derives from the Celtic name Bryttas. That is what the Celts called themselves before the Anglo-Saxons starting calling them Welsh. So the Celts took an Anglo-Saxon name, Welsh, for themselves, and the Anglo-Saxons took a Celtic name, Briton, for everyone living in that land.
I am very fond of England and thank the English for giving such a wonderful language to the world.
To: GoLightly; twigs
I have been doing research for about 5 years and have over 22,000 names in my FTM. It saved my sanity after losing my brother, husband, bil, mother and an aunt within 8 months. I could not think of my problems while entering data. Two of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower. A son of one married the daughter of the other one or that is what I have found on several sites. I take it with a grain of salt though until I find some proof.
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09/29/2007 1:41:41 AM PDT
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MamaB
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To: blam
I object to this guy Hudson calling treatment of the native population in the United States genocide. Genocide is the policy of annihilation of a population. No such policy was ever attempted here. There were wrongs committed, promises broken, even massacres that took place. But no one ever tried to find a final solution to the Indian question.
To: blam
Within two generations, the genetic makeup will be mostly West Asian and African.
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04/07/2019 5:37:52 AM PDT
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SauronOfMordor
(Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
To: SauronOfMordor
"Within two generations, the genetic makeup will be mostly West Asian and African." I think you are correct...And, living under Shariah Law.
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04/07/2019 10:34:12 AM PDT
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blam
To: SauronOfMordor
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blam
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