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Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leaders
(www.irishstar.com)
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What language were they speaking in England before they stole one from USA?
Before or after the French took over in 1066?
England? Well there was Cornish and Manx. Cornish went extinct in the 18th century but the last monoglot speaker died in the 17th century.
I am not counting Welsh since that is in Wales... And Scots Gaelic is in Scotland, its own country.
The Scots and Irish keep Gaelic alive just to piss off the British.
Well that, but also it's a really fucking cool language
Except the orthography, which works but is still conceptually insane.