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<div style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Comic Sans MS"><p>Did you know? Old English had three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter). :) I have just learnt this by reading about <font face="Arial" size="2">Old English</font> in the spread “The Story of English” under the section <font face="Arial"><b>Language and Literature</b></font> of <a target="_blank" href="http://z8.invisionfree.com/DYK/index.php?showtopic=388&view=findpost&p=3617172"><i>The Guinness Encylopedia</i></a>. :good:</p>
<p style="line-height: 150%">I also learn that Celtic languages were spoken in Britain before the 5<sup><u>th</u></sup> century <small>CE</small>. These languages were displaced as the Anglo-Saxons invaded the country – and it was from the Germanic languages spoken by the invaders (which included Frisian and Jutish) that Old English developed. B)</p></div>[/dohtml]
