The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe: And More Especially of the English and Lowland Scotch, and Their Slang, Cant, and Colloquial Dialects
The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe: And More Especially of the English and Lowland Scotch, and Their Slang, Cant, and Colloquial Dialects
Excerpt from The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe: And More Especially of the English and Lowland Scotch and of Their Slang, Cant, and Colloquial Dialects If the British people had really been exterminated, their language would of course have been exterminated with them, at a time when there were no printed books and few manuscripts to preserve it; and all that could have remained of it, would have been the names of moun tains, rivers, and important places, though it is possible that these names might ...
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Excerpt from The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe: And More Especially of the English and Lowland Scotch and of Their Slang, Cant, and Colloquial Dialects If the British people had really been exterminated, their language would of course have been exterminated with them, at a time when there were no printed books and few manuscripts to preserve it; and all that could have remained of it, would have been the names of moun tains, rivers, and important places, though it is possible that these names might have perished also, and been superseded by new ones given by the conquerors. A succinct statement and examination of the theory of this mythical extermination of a whole people, will clear the way for the philological question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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