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The problem would be determining that Latin words entered Old English directly from the Latin spoken in England, instead of being part of the Latin influence on Old English while it was still spoken on the continent. English already had such Latin loanwords as street (from Latin strāta ‘paved road’) before the Anglo-Saxons set off to to invade England.


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