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Subject: [OM] Re: English [OT]
From: "Bachofen" <mbachofen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:53:10 -0600
Old English is more closely related to the Low Germanic languages such as Old 
Frisian, Flemish, and Old Low German than to Middle High German .  The terms 
low and high stem from altitude, so in the North it was 'low' and in the South 
'high'.  This is a bit of an oversimplification as well, but certainly those 
languages are more closely related to Anglo-Saxon English.

M. Bachofen


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