Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real characters

[Anders Wegge Keller]

På Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:27:03 -0400
Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> skrev:

> 	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"]).

 English is known to be lurking in back alleys, waiting for unsuspecting
 languages, that can be beat up for loose vocabulary. So defining anything
 "pure" about it, is going to be practically impossible.

-- 
//Wegge