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👉 Okay, settle yourselves down now. Let’s tackle this rather… prickly little bit of linguistic weirdness: 

Anglo-Saxon.

3...2...1... let's unpack that.

Now, before I start spitting out a frankly exhausting amount of dead peasantry history and Germanic migration patterns, let me preface this by saying, the way it gets thrown around these days is almost entirely divorced from its original meaning. It started as genuinely descriptive! Seriously. Basically, Anglo-Saxon was the collective term for what we now roughly equate to "English natives, of that specific Germanic extraction." During the early Middle Ages (around the 5th and 6th centuries—basically when the Brits were being overrun by a bunch of rather serious, and frankly, very wet foreigners), this referred specifically to those who spoke and practiced the language emerging from the Anglo Franks. That was their… brand of it, essentially. They had a distinct dialect – that's what we now call Old English - and they were pretty clearly demarcated from the existing Brittanic Britons (who mostly kept to the old Celtic tongues). The term itself is a mash-up: Anglo: Short for Anglo Frank, referring to the Germanic Anglo Franks who settled in Britain. ’Saxon: Referring to those Saxon tribes that came over. It was meant to identify these specific immigrant groups. (Pronounced with a very aggressive "aw" as you probably

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