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Many of you here can claim English as your mother tongue, perhaps because your ancestors came to the Colonies from somewhere in the British Isles. The way that the languages into use today came about is a fascinating subject to many people, including me. I was raised speaking four languages on an almost daily basis - three of them common to the British Isles and one from the Middle East. I later added four more to that total, and a working knowledge of another three. That might account, in a way, to my rather stilted use of English, which is not really my preferred lingua franca.
A forum pal of mine, who lives up in the far north of Scotland in Wester Ross, found this and posted it on airgunbbs.com, where I found it, and with his blessing, I've reposted it here.
A Brief History of British and Irish Languages - Starkey Comics
Thanks, Will, Go raibh maith agat go leor leat.
As a long-time student of languages, bearing in mind that I'm not any kind of an expert, just an everyday user of three of the British languages, I'm happy to get involved in any discussion that this post might raise, if at all.
A forum pal of mine, who lives up in the far north of Scotland in Wester Ross, found this and posted it on airgunbbs.com, where I found it, and with his blessing, I've reposted it here.
A Brief History of British and Irish Languages - Starkey Comics
Thanks, Will, Go raibh maith agat go leor leat.
As a long-time student of languages, bearing in mind that I'm not any kind of an expert, just an everyday user of three of the British languages, I'm happy to get involved in any discussion that this post might raise, if at all.