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Originally Posted by Brigid View Post
No, I didn't forget them. Anglo-Saxon is a convenient blanket term to describe people who've descended from the Germanic tribes in the British Isles... and implies the dominance of Germanic culture, values etc within.
You're missing a large part of England's history if you think it is culturally Germanic and no more. I'll pull out the words which have French or Latin origins from your statement above: "convenient", "term", "describe", "people", "descended", "tribes", "British", "Isles", "implies", "dominance", "Germanic", "culture", "values", "etc".

England wasn't modern England until after 1066 when the French Normans came. These Normans were the first "Englishmen" to get a foothold in Ireland and were led by the very Frenchly named, Richard de Clare.

Which brings us to:

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Vae Victis!
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It is Latin for "the conquered have no rights" or "tough luck!".
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