The Impact Of Christianity On The English Language

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English

 

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Roy H

 

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September 14, 2014

 

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From the very beginning, words having to do with religion such as abbot, mass and priest were borrowed. Since the Anglo-Saxons were pagans and their ideals contrasted the teachings of the Christian faith, they lacked words to express the new conceptions. However, in some other cases, they preferred to stick to their own words and adapted them to express the new meanings...
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For example, rather than adopting the Latin word deus, they kept their equivalent God, evangelium was rendered godspell, and prophet was wise one. Many of these words were translations of the Latin equivalents such as Holy Ghost, which was used instead of Spiritus Sanctus, and Doomsday used instead of Judgment Day...
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