Friends- British accent

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You conveniently left out


English is in one of the Germanic language families (West Germanic, I think, but can't be arsed to look it up).  Languages in the Latin family are referred to as 'Romance Languages', which manifestly do not include English.

Boru

What I always understood about the British Isles is that the immigration of European-Roman speaking waves is what started English; a language to make the diverse immigration movement understand itself.

In that regard any European wave immigrating to the isles of Britain was "speaking a Roman language to some extent".

Except for the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes, the Danes, the Norse, and the Swedes.  The Romance influence on English didn't really begin to have an impact until the 11th century, once the Normans settled in.

But back to our muttons (so to speak).  There are a multitude of British accents, and to say that they evolved from some sort of debased Latin is simply wrong.

Boru