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Introduction
Was it really all just about words?
One
WE SPEAK A MISCEGENATED GRAMMAR
THE WELSHNESS OF ENGLISH
The Kinks
Uninteresting Likenesses
Assumption Number One: The Celts All Just Died
Assumption Number Two: Shitte Happens
Assumption Number Three: Writing Is How People Talked
One Last Assumption: Where Are the Celtic Words?
Celtic Underground Even Today
What Is Proof?
Two
A LESSON FROM THE CELTIC IMPACT
THE “GRAMMATICAL ERRORS” EPIDEMIC IS A HOAX
Linguists’ Frustration
Now Versus Then
Stop Making Sense
Three
WE SPEAK A BATTERED GRAMMAR
WHAT THE VIKINGS DID TO ENGLISH
The Tip of the Iceberg: Suffixes
“But Wait, There’s More!”: The Rest of the Iceberg
Whodunit?
The Viking Impact
Why Not the Celts?
The Big Picture
The Establishment View
Monopoly Versus Clue
Four
DOES OUR GRAMMAR CHANNEL OUR THOUGHT?
HINT: DOES ENGLISH GRAMMAR CHANNEL YOURS?
A School Is Founded
Are We Dumb Anglo-Saxons?
Whorfianism as Zeitgeist: Thinking People’s Street Myth
Politics or Science?
Does Language Channel Thought?: The Neo-Whorfians
Five
SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET
WHAT HAPPENED TO ENGLISH BEFORE IT WAS ENGLISH?
Proto-Germanic Had Strange Verbs
Proto-Germanic Packed Light
Proto-Germanic Was Full of Orphan Words
Phinding the Phoenicians
What Proto-Germanic Was, What English Is
Notes on Sources
Introduction
One
WE SPEAK A MISCEGENATED GRAMMAR
Two
A LESSON FROM THE CELTIC IMPACT
Three
WE SPEAK A BATTERED GRAMMAR
Four
DOES OUR GRAMMAR CHANNEL OUR THOUGHT?
Five
SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET
Acknowledgments
Index
