Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real characters

[Rhodri James]

On 18/07/17 16:27, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:38:48 -0400, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com>
> declaimed the following:
> 
>> Define "native" then. My interpretation of "native English words" is
>> "anything you wouldn't have to put in italics to use in a sentence".
>> Which would also include "continuum".
>>
> 
> 	Probably would have to go to words predating the Roman occupation
> (which probably means a dialect closer to Welsh or other Gaelic).
> Everything later is an import (anglo-saxon being germanic tribes invading
> south, Vikings in the central area, as I recall southern Irish displacing
> Picts in Scotland, and then the Norman French (themselves starting from
> Vikings ["nor(se)man"]).

Sorry, but even the Gaels/Gauls were invaders :-)

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd