Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet
by jacobush on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:22AM
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Sounds strange to me that Danish rulers would import back sentence construction with such gusto all the way back to eastern Sweden? Is it not more likely the Danish sentence construction filtered down into common English with time?
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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet
by tyfon on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:44AM
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I am a bit stuffed today due to a cold, what I tried to explain is that there is no "Old English" in modern english. It was wiped out during danelaw and replaced with scandinavian. They did however adopt local "Old English" words into scandinavian and eventually it evolved to modern english.
Scandinavian languages did not change due to this.
Read the article, they explain it much better than me ;)