1. The History of the English Language
(Literature: The British Edition p.8) Christian missionaries later brought over the Latin alphabet to Britain from Ireland and this is the alphabet that has remained as the alphabet of the writing system of English. ... The Latin language gave English such words like kitchen, cup, cheese, bishop, candle. ... (Literature: The British Edition p.60) Prior to the Norman Conquest, Latin had only had a minor influence on the English language, this being mainly through the occupation on Romans and from the conversion of Britain to Christianity in the 7th Century, but with the invasion of the Norm...
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