English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes — David Crystal
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English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

— David Crystal
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