![]() ![]() Shakespeare and other writers filled in the gaps (and still do), inventing words where they were lacking. Over the course of 1000 years, the language came together from extensive contact with Anglo-Norman, a dialect of French then became heavily Latinized and full of Greek roots and endings then absorbed words from Arabic, Spanish, and dozens of other languages, and with them, arguably, absorbed concepts and pictures of the world that cannot be separated from the language itself. What is the English language? Is it Anglo-Saxon? It is tempting to think so, in part because the definition simplifies a linguistic history that defies linear summary.
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