From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 62927
Date: 2009-02-08
> There was a move towards seeing English as a CreoleHardly the only counterargument. Those who are actually
> language arising from the meeting of Anglo-Saxon and
> French in post-1066 England some years back. It was
> countered with the observation that similar creole-like
> processes took place in the area I mentioned: Dutch, Low
> German Continental Scandinavian.
> No Saxon in England would argue with a Norman that it wasTrue: the OE plural was <æg(e)ru>. The plural <eyren> was
> eyren,