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<blockquote data-quote="ratsapprentice" data-source="post: 690653" data-attributes="member: 67273"><p>English is Germanic, not German. (I know you probably know that, just clarifying)</p><p>It's much more similar to Frisian, Icelandic, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian than it is to German.</p><p></p><p>If you listen to Geordie (North-East England) accents they actually sound very Scandinavian.</p><p>A lot of them still say "Hus" instead of "House" for example.</p><p></p><p>English regional accents/dialects are still very, very different in some cases - but up until very, very recently (last 100 or so years) the differences were even more stark than they are now.</p><p>Some day I'd quite like to learn Old English.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ratsapprentice, post: 690653, member: 67273"] English is Germanic, not German. (I know you probably know that, just clarifying) It's much more similar to Frisian, Icelandic, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian than it is to German. If you listen to Geordie (North-East England) accents they actually sound very Scandinavian. A lot of them still say "Hus" instead of "House" for example. English regional accents/dialects are still very, very different in some cases - but up until very, very recently (last 100 or so years) the differences were even more stark than they are now. Some day I'd quite like to learn Old English. [/QUOTE]
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