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jan 1, 20 BC - Roman Influence

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The linguistic legacy of the Romans on English takes the form of less than 200 “loanwords” coined by Roman merchants and soldiers, such as win (wine), butere (butter), caese (cheese), piper(pepper), candel (candle), cetel (kettle), disc (dish), cycene (kitchen), ancor (anchor), belt (belt), sacc (sack), catte (cat), plante (plant), rosa (rose), cest (chest), pund (pound), munt (mountain), straet (street), wic (village), mil (mile), port (harbour), weall (wall), etc. However, Latin would, at a later time come to have a substantial influence on the language.

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16 Jul 2018
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Date:

jan 1, 20 BC
Now
~ 2045 years ago

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