Re: Breton, Cornish & French

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> "Chess One" <OneChess@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "John Briggs" <john.briggs4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Chess One wrote:
> > And some answer, or contra-proposal, is proposed by John Fowles, who
had a
> > Cornish mother, who preferred to name this language Anglo Celtic,
rather
> > than Anglo Saxon. It is a very difficult cusp to investigate, it
being the
> > very mark of early written records overlapping with oral tradtion.
> >
> > The thing about Cornwall being that is was highly resistant to Anglo
> > Saxon, whereas, was A. Sax resistant to its p-Celtic language
neighbours -
> > seemingly not, and unless some exception can be established why not,
which
> > would itself be unusual in the world, then the language we know
speak
> > seems to be a very permeable once, admitting many, so to speak.
>
> They call themselves Anglo-Saxons in order to distinguish themselves
from
> the Continental Saxons in Germany.


I wonder if they really called themselves Anglo-Saxons back in what WE
call Anglo-Saxon times. There might have been an occasional learned
writer who used this compound term, but I doubt if many ordinary people
would have identified themselves as such.

Can Larry Swain comment on this?

Alan