On 21/10/17 23:44, jonathon wrote: > On 10/21/2017 09:16 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > >> I think you mean users of the Scots language. Not to be confused with the >> language of the Scots. > > There is a dialect of English called Scottish English. It is a > combination of Gaelic and English.
And what relation is that to the language Scots? Which is what the people from lowland Scotland speak (and they're not Scots, despite being Scottish :-) To confuse matters even further, we all know Nova Scotia (or "New Scotland"). But where is Scotia? :-) > >> Sassenachs - ie Angles - speak Scots. Scots speak Gaelic. (And it's the >> Saxons who speak English :-) > > And the Celts speak? > Welsh - which I believe was the name given by the Anglo-Saxons to the inhabitants of Britain before they arrived. It then got repurposed by Normans - or maybe Wales was not part of England at the time of the Conquest. I'm more interested in the Scottish side of things, but what is noticeable is that in the 10th and 11th centuries Britain was coalescing into a single nation, and William rather mucked things up. Edward the Confessor *allegedly* made him his heir (not something Edward had the power to do), and William and his successors took this as a claim to all of Britain despite Edward only being King of the South East (okay, most of it :-). If it wasn't for William, the remaining kingdoms might well have merged, rather than been forcibly joined by conquest. The English kings were elected, which is sort of how the last great merger before the Conquest took place. Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
