Didnt the Normans do to Anglo Saxons what Anglo-Saxons did to Romans? why do we consider English Anglo-Saxons but not Romans? Both got invasions that ended their rules
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Anglo-Saxon culture was never really replaced. While the ruling class in England was made up of French-speaking Normans for a long time, regular people were still ethnically Saxon and spoke early English. Modern English has a lot of French (and Latin) in it, but the grammar and core vocabulary is Anglo-Saxon. English legal foundations, like using common law instead of a roman civil law, come from its Anglo-Saxon roots more than its Norman conquerors too.
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