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Wile E. Coyote


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He is winning me over as a super-enthusiastic, throwing out of ideas type of guy. OK, he is temperamentally just not suited for "the long duree" but isn't that creative tension exactly why he is so entertaining?

Britannia: Rome's Afghanistan? is a representative chapter, wherein he tries to explain the extensive Britannia fortifications, the walls and forts etc, and then, eureka, discovers more Roman glass and pottery in one museum in Normandy than contained within all the museums in Britain put together.

He reminds me of my mate Tony the tiger. Greeaaat!
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Mick Harper
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I entirely agree. It's a case of new brooms sweeping fresh corners even though they're in the wrong room. For those who want to dive into it, the paper can be read/downloaded from here https://www.academia.edu/16346563/The_Frisian_Enigma?email_work_card=view-paper&li=0
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The Kindle version of THOBR is available for download in return for two and a half of your English pounds here

https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Britain-Revealed-English-Language-ebook/dp/B0C2ZV5JQ9/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+history+of+britain+revealed&qid=1682006831&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

I haven't read it myself but I'm told it is vastly improved from the printed version and I should know it took me yonks to do it. In fact I sincerely hope it becomes the standard version from now on.
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Mick Harper
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Modern-day Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish people found to have Pictish ancestry

Imputed genomes and haplotype-based analyses of the Picts of early medieval Scotland
reveal fine-scale relatedness between Iron Age, early medieval and the modern people of the UK

PLOS Genetics (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010360
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-modern-day-scottish-welsh-northern-irish.html

They have discovered the ancient population (called by them the Picts) are much the same as the present population of Gaelic-speakers. Just as THOBR said they would. Twenty years late, but by academic standards that's not at all bad.
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Ishmael


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Mick Harper wrote:
I haven't read it myself but I'm told it is vastly improved from the printed version and I should know it took me yonks to do it. In fact I sincerely hope it becomes the standard version from now on.


I just read the opening page. It seems to read much closer to the original version!!! And that was what I vastly preferred over the ACORN version.
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Ishmael


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Wile E. Coyote wrote:
Theodore of Tarsus is of course Saul (Paul) of Tarsus.


I'm willing to grant that Theodore is Paul, but it's the history that has been relocated to the UK, not the apostle.
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Wile E. Coyote


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It seems to Wiley that what is now known as Middle English was a highly commendable attempt by Johhny Foreigner to donate a few of their rewritten texts and develop us a writing sytem that would be a good logical phonetic match to our spoken words. Surely we should celebrate their efforts? They at least tried, even if they failed.
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If you can point me to some Middle English texts I will explore your idea.
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