A lot of English words come from Celtic languages

 

It’s all just English anyway! | SteCymru14’s Smiley Faces

I’ve just read an article by a British person claiming Welsh is backwards and insignificant. How its use is as pointless as the people who use it. Nice, huh? Well if this person is allowed to denounce the indigenous rites of an ancient people, I’m certainly allowed to denounce his or her freedom to use…

Source: stecymru14.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/its-all-just-english-anyway/

A lot of words in English come from Celtic languages. All languages borrow words from one another. There is no such thing as a “pure” language. Of course there are language that borrow more, or less words, but all languages have taken words from others language.

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