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Thanatikos t1_irb7r5g wrote

Reply to comment by AethelweardSaxon in Where did the English language REALLY come from? by MagicRaptor

Oh, aren’t there even good examples of Latin place names? Londonum…

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AethelweardSaxon t1_irb8jtt wrote

There a few cities sure, anything with -cester on the end of them especially i.e. Chichester, Leicester, Worcester, Gloucester. But even these are the exception to the rule and notable because of it.

Of course there are thousands more villages and towns than cities, and these are the ones with with nearly all Anglo Saxon derivations.

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Thanatikos t1_irb9qta wrote

No, I was actually trying to bolster your point. If Celtic names (and genes) are largely missing even while Latin ones managed to make it through, it doesn’t bode well for the idea that the Celts were integrated in the area. I don’t think genocide or “replacement” are great leaps in logic to come to. I think genetic and archaeological evidence are showing more and more that older populations all over the planet were replaced by successive waves of migration and technology. The genes of the oldest human remains almost never suggest a common lineage with present day populations.

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