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But the speech of the Anglo-Saxons themselves had brought to England a sprinkling of Latin words picked up in their trade with the Romans.
So, golfers, the next time you are in Ireland or Scotland, ponder why the Gaels used such combustible terms for heather and eschewed the features like bells and crosses that impressed themselves on Anglo-Saxons.
Indeed, the earlier Anglo-Saxons had little more luck with the voodoo h ; in a brief article in an 1888 issue of Notes and Queries , Prof. Skeat wrote: Only last week, I found ors for hors horse in an unedited A-S manuscript.
When the Anglo-Saxons wanted a word to express the activity of traveling in a ship powered by wind in sails, they saved themselves a lot of breath by forming the verb sail .
Even during the Second World War, when you would have expected the Anglo-Saxons to react allergically to Germanisms, they continued to infiltrate the language.