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“When Winston Churchill wanted to rally the nation in 1940, it was to Anglo-Saxon that he
turned: "We shall fight on the beaches; we shall fight on the landing grounds; we shall fight in
the fields and the streets; we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
All these stirring words came from Old English as spoken in the year 1000, with the exception
of the last one,
surrender,
a French import that came with the Normans in 1066 - and when
man set foot on the moon in 1969, the first human words spoken had similar echoes:
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Each of Armstrong's famous words was part of Old English by the year 1000.”