the history of English in ten minutes chapter one anglo-saxon or whatever happened to the Jutes the English language begins with the phrase up your Caesar as the Romans leave Britain and a lot of Germanic tribes start flooding in tribes such as the angles and the Saxons who together gave us the term anglo-saxon and the Jews did the Romans left some very straight roads behind but not much of their Latin language the anglo-saxon vocab was much more useful as it was mainly words for simple everyday things like house woman left and will for of our days
of the week were named in honor of anglo-saxon gods they didn't bother with Saturday Sunday and Monday has it all gone off for a long weekend while they're away Christian missionaries stolen bringing with them leaflets about jumble sales and Latin Christianity was a hit with the locals and made them much happy to take on funky new words from Latin like martyr Bishop and font along came the Vikings with their action man words like drag ransack fast and die they may have raped and pillaged but they were also in to give and take two of around
2,000 words they gave English as well as the phrase watch out for that man with the enormous axe
