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  • "However, the model cannot offer a guess as to what the ancestral words were. It can only estimate the likelihood that the sound from a modern English word might make some sense if called out during the Battle of Hastings." -- "'Oldest English words' identified," BBC News, 2/26/09

    March 2, 2009

  • Especially if one has studied Anglo-Saxon. The BBC article makes it sound like 1000 years ago is as distant as 10,000 years ago.

    March 3, 2009