English, Irish, Scots: They're All One, Genes Suggest

iht.com/articles/2007/03/05/news/web.0305BRITS.full.php

What does it have to do with Poland?

Yes BUT you and your neighbour could be TWINS but if you disagree about the colour of the garden fence - that is cause enough to be enemies!

The Irish, Scottish and English may have similar genes (no surprise to me btw) but it is the SOCIO-PSYCOLOGICAL background MAKES them VERY different to each other.

Sure Polish, German, Bulgarians and Croats are genetically 'similar' by the same token, but you try telling them that! :)

good post!

very little i imagine... which would explian why it was posted in the off-topic lounge... perhaps...

Don't know really but it is in the off topic lounge section :)

Thinking about it, it means you can work anywhere in the UK Or Eire and know that you are dealing with a genetically identical bunch of miscreants

Whenever I see "English" or "British" in the topic I feel it's going to be deleted or closed soon - these two words are like catalysts to forum fights.

ouch - that hurt szarlotka

Far too logical Bubba. There has to be something else there. <remembering to observe your Shatnerian pauses> Get bletchley on the blower, we'll have them take a schnuffty.

God only knows what the Americans will make of that. :)

Interesting that English is not a germanic language and was spoke before the Romans got here

eng & ire dont fight anymore hello???

I'm afraid I don't understand your banter old man

can you explain then why English is descended from german then peter?

But some Brits and some Poles do (for unknown reason).

Its not, read the article

Damn clever Frenchies, coming over and stealing our words for Radiator.

tak, moze ale nie brit V ire anymore.

there are some poles who fight the brits and and brits that fight the poles here but not the irish :)


Genetics and Language are two different topics.

I read the article. read this

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

English is an Anglo-Frisian language brought to southeastern Great Britain in the 5th century AD by Germanic settlers from various parts of northwest Germany (Saxons, Angles) as well as Jutland (Jutes).

English, a West Germanic language

Ah, you mean we all look and talk like cows eh? Pull the udder one:)

wrong kind of friesian szar :)

Oh yes. Foolish of me.

No, it isn't. Read the article

nie nie, just, eager :) and you may have variant CJD - jury is still out

In which case I intend to go into politics forthwith :)

you refuse to read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

Peter, im not arguing with you, im showing you the proof to the statement about the ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The GENETICS of the British and IRISH is a different issue. and one article in the Herald does not change history of the English language


over qualified!

Well it's been a long and trying day so I will bid you all goodnight. At least I can sleep sound in the knowledge that I am genetically structured in such a way to keep up drinking with the Irish on St Patrick's Day. Dobranoc (spelling, jeez)

slainte! :) ill drink one in your memory!

Those pesky Saxons, Jutes and Angles.

Hmm, Angles, Saxons?

Angle oh Saxons (Matron) Can I hold anything for you Vicar? :)

Dane Geld isn't he that the guy from Another Level who had an accident with a pair of shears? :)

You guys are both right.

Although the Celtic immigrants may have been few in number, they spread their farming techniques and their language throughout Ireland and the western coast of Britain. Later immigrants from Northern Europe had more influence on the eastern and southern coasts. They, too, spread their language, a branch of German, but these invaders' numbers were also small compared with the local population.

Celtic and German.

But then the Normans under William the Conqueror came and French was introduced. (other groups came to the British Isles as well) So its a mix of languages.

i...don't know :)

Anyone who quotes wikipedia a the pure source of knowledge is is evident fool. You also don't understand genetics and its relation to lanuage.

You also haven't read the article.

when talking about JUST the ENGLISH language, the ENGLISH language is a western Germanic language only

Gaelic (the IRish & scottish language, you are right, is different again)

but dealing ONLY with the ENglish language - i am not making facts up to suit myself.

i wouldn't :) im a lousy liar :)


its only the FIRST source - dont make me go librarian on your a$$!

and GENETICS HAS NOTHING to do with language!!!

well, with the ORIGINS of it

tak it has developmental basis in the HUMAN mind but that his NOT in the realm of HISTORY!

ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html

just ANOTHER source of MANY stating ENGLISH as a germanic LANGUAGE (nOTHING TO DO WITH GENETICS)