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...... England before English
Many people have a difficult time divorcing England from English, as if the region were dominated by its native language for its entire historic record, and this is simply not the case. England has a historic history and prehistoric history as a region that has been occupied for probably longer than we can trace but at least 50,000 years, by conservative modern estimates. (Baugh 47) Prior to the adoption and development of English the region was populated by people with a variety of unknown languages, but as Baugh points out undoubtedly they had languages, as all society as far back as can be traced has some form of sound communication akin to a language. Sadly, very little is known about the languages of these earlier times. (Baugh 47) English according to Baugh has in fact only been the common language of England for about fifteen hundred years. (Baugh 47)
Borrowed Vocabulary
One aspect of English that will become notable in nearly every period of it history is the fact that so much of the English language in both character and vocabulary is borrowed form other languages. Cultural melting, wars, conquests and simple exposure or ease of

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