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0043 Roman Britain
0043 Roman Britain
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0400~0500 Anglo-Saxon Settlements
0400~0500 Anglo-Saxon Settlements
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1066~1086 Norman Conquest of Britain
1066~1086 Norman Conquest of Britain
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○○○ Anglo-Saxon ⪢⪢
For example, we took the names for animals but while in the fields and farms where the Anglo-Saxon peasants worked, they kept the Germanic names, on the tables where the Roman nobles dined, they got the Romance names.
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Double Vocabulary of English
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English language
#listening
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History of England
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○○○ Romance ⪢⪢
Often, we borrowed the Romance word and kept the Germanic one too, using them in slightly different ways.
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