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The language of English is full of pluralities,
Because it’s derived from a melange of old languages.
Although you can make fun of its pe-culiarities.
Its beauty derives from this mixture of tongues.
First there was Celtic with its poetic form.
To which Latin was added to give it formality.
Then the Jutes, Saxons and Danes all arrived in a storm,
With their guttural sounds causing instant hilarity.
Because of the mixture of grammar created,
It had to be simplified so they could speak,
But they all kept their nouns, though the best were debated,
Without order of words they were all up the creek!
Then later was added some old Norman French.
It was slightly effete and used just by the Lords,
The soldiers still spoke in the slang of the trench,
While the Frenchified knights only polished their swords.
The result was old English, the first given this name,
Followed by Chaucer with a ‘Middle English’ root
But later old Shakespeare got into the game,
20,000 new words and Italian to boot!
Add to this all the loanwords from the old colonies,
And now see our tongue’s derivation.
The richest of all in its vocabularies,
With subtleties full of sublime fascination.
So don’t mock variety and irregularity,
It’s what makes us British the race that we are.
Individuals, with just a small touch of barbarity,
And a literary bent that your scorn cannot mar.
Tony the Saxon
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