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From: jack@boring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Horrible Hack to tell Scand. Languages apart
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 11:53:58 EDT
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In article <845@mcvax.UUCP> aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer) writes:
>...(as for example English is
>remotely related to Irish); 
Oh?
As far as I know, Irish had very little influence on English.

Of course, there are still a lot of gaelic words in English, but I don't
think that they are of Irish origin.

Or do you mean the fact that quite a few words for "new" ideas were borrowed
from English ?

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	Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP
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