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Peter Lovett talks

“The influence of invasions on the English language."

looks at place names and English history... revealed in our language". For example, the suffix “-ham” dominates Sussex and is absent in areas of the north where -”by” prevails.  Danish words are still in dialect and the Normans gave us “dents de lion”.

And just why does our tax year start on 6th April… all is revealed in this romp through English history – revealed in our language.

English is my mother tongue and I also speak Italian, German, Dutch and French… and some words of Spanish, Portuguese and Danish.