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An earlier blog entry took an amusing turn at tracing the history of select words that had the noble turn of admittance into the mono-salubrious vocabulary that is the English Language.
A smart new book takes us through the story of the language in a hundred words.
It formed in the fifth century when Saxons, Angles and Jutes arrrived in England from Germany - their vacabulary mingled with Latin, a replica of Roman domination. There was also Old Norse in the mix that gifted the words skirt, yard and kick.
The Norman invasion of 1066 added French words such as question and flame ~ see other words gained from Spanish, Italian and Indian influcences.
Fun read, worth the gander .. buy the book.
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