So you think you are English

[rik_uk3]

Are you English?

[video=youtube;j617mImHVvk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j617mImHVvk&feature=related[/video]

 

[maddave]

Und ich dachte, dass Leute mich nicht verstehen konnten, weil ich immer getrunken wurde!

 

[apj1974]

Da iawn yn wir.

 

[JonathanD]

Been saying it for years. Interesting stuff.

 

[sam_acw]

I thought this was common knowledge. Sadly, I don't think the migration period is one that's much taught in schools today.

 

[Adze]

"Saxons killed or booted out between 50 and 100% of the Britons in what is now England"

In the main those Saxons were Angles. Angleterre ~ Angleland ~ England. Anglish ~ English. It's got stuff all to do with who was here first or 'who is more British'. The clue is in the name, you just haven't thought it through

English, yes and proud of it.

 

[Matt.S]

In other news, bears crap in the woods (and Bear probably eats it for the camera.)

 

[Bushwhacker]

Definitely not, my grandfather was a German POW.

 

[John Fenna]

A name of Irish (or Morroccan) origin, a Scotish Mother, traced my ancesters to N Wales in the C16th, born in the Parish of Eton overlooking Windsor Castle, brought up in Hereford and Belgium, lived in Wales for 30+ years...never realy thought of myself as one of the "johny come lately" English...just "British" !
Dammit - the English are Germanics who speak a bastardised form of French/German not a good "Celtic" tongue....

 

[marcusleftthesite]

Cornish

 

[Adze]

Cornish

Pirate

 

[drewdunnrespect]

well thats all a pile of horlicks cos i am from yorkshire

 

[Wilderbeast]

English back to 13th C and couldn't trace past there!

 

[jonnie drake]

all I know is that Im from yorkshire. Thats all I need to know

 

[Wayland]

I've been teaching kids that for years, must have been a no news day.

My surname is of Germanic decent but could be either Saxon or Viking, so no great surprises there either.

This is why I find racist bigots so laughably pathetic, a recent study showed that most of them are "academic low achievers" and that's clear to see when they blether on about being British. Most of them haven't a clue what that really means.

Britain is an island nation that has been strengthened by wave after wave of immigration through history. You've only got to check out our national favourite foods to understand the way this has enriched our culture, but it's also written in our language too.

 

[Tadpole]

Norman French. If'n you ever go to Le Mont-Saint-Michel, and climb to the High Abby, you'll see our family coat of arms. Go to Liverpool and we have a street named after a family member. Owned 33000 acres of land in Lancashire, 2000 staff and a village too. Saw off Owen Glendower, when he tried to take Caernarfon Castle. (Was paid handsomely for that with 5000 acres of land) stood alongside Henry V at Agincourt. High Sheriff of Lancashire six time and Lord Mayor of Liverpool. We may not be English but when there was English “history” in the making we were there, a kicking a gouging and a plundering,
Robber Barons Rule!!!

 

[robin wood]

Britain is an island nation that has been strengthened by wave after wave of immigration through history.

Well said.

I too was surprised at this no news item, after all "England" means "land of the Angles" it would have been a surprise if the genetics had shown otherwise.

I am pleased this thread has not turned into a "Welsh are better than English because we are genetically more pure" type thread, good to know folk here re better than that and I enjoyed the entertaining Yorkshire deviation.

The English samples were taken from known Anglo Saxon heartland, would have been more interesting if they had sampled other areas such as Devon. I presume they checked folk had lived there several generations not moved to Wales 3 years ago.

 

[apj1974]

I think all we can safely say is that the Welsh are definitely more welsh than the English are!

 

[Wayland]

Welsh derives from "Foreigner" in Old English, ie. Saxon speak for not one of us. Meanwhile Scotland is named after an Irish tribe but we all came from Africa in the first place.

 

[Matt.S]

Scotland is named after an Irish tribe but

Ah but can you really apply 21st-century political map divided by the sea to a 2nd-century culture united by the sea? ;-)

we all came from Africa in the first place.

Or perhaps Asia!