External influences on English [electronic resource] : from its beginnings to the Renaissance / D. Gary Miller. Miller, D. Gary. English language Foreign elements. English language Etymology. PE1582.A3 422.4 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 9, 2012). In this fascinating history of the influences on English during the first thousand years of its formation the author shows when and why the Anglo-Saxons began to borrow words from Latin and Greek and the effects of contact with the Vikings, Celts, and French. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 2012. 2012 Text 1 online resource. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654260.001.0001 eng