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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
  1. The ancestor language of modern English, also called Old English, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD.
  2. Germanic peoples inhabiting mediæval England.
  3. (US) A person of British or North European descent.
  4. (US, Mexican-American) A light-skinned person presumably of British or other European appearance; a white person.
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Anglo-Saxon is the term usually used to describe the peoples living in the south and east of Great Britain from the early 5th century AD to the Norman conquest of 1066.

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