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The Anglo-Saxons did not allow the duplication of personal names within a group.
Caesar drew Gaul’s northeastern frontier at the Rhine, taking in present-day Belgium, and warned that the Germanic tribes across the river — the Franks (after whom France is named), Alamans, and Saxons — would always threaten the security of the frontier.
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.
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.
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 .