There's an article by Oppenheimer in the October issue of Prospect
magazine -- should be able to be seen at
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk
but the server seems to be down at the moment.
John Freeman
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From: "John Briggs" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 12:00 PM
Subject: [EPNL] DNA Shock Horror
>I thought that I ought to bring the unwelcome news that the DNA experts,
>having failed to fit their results to any plausible linguistic model, have
>now decided that a Germanic language was spoken in England before the Roman
>conquest. (Except for the Belgae who, being Belgian, spoke Gaulish...)
>The Celtic-speaking areas were populated by the descendants of the Basques.
>
> (Stephen Oppenheimer, The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective
> Story, 2006)
>
> Please don't shoot the messenger.
>
> John Briggs
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