The English and the Celts - no genocide?

[Conal]

Strangely enough, it's only over the last couple of generations that my home dialect, scouse, has actually become thicker and less intelligible, according to linguists like Kevin Watson :? Even I can hear people back home talking in an accent that is far heavier than I ever grew up with (book was always pronounced "buck", not "boookkh" when I was a child). I also have to say that during my travels around the country there are still some areas where I can't understand a word some people say (Gloucestershire is one).

But that doesn't address the very different languages of Welsh, Gaellic (two types of Celtic roots I believe), and English (Germanic, with French and Latin mixed in IIRC) only influencing one way, and not the other. It would, to my mind, seem to be a matter of a history of conquest; your father's experience at school kind of suggests it.

I am sure that there were lots of old "celtic" words which crossed over but have since dissappeared due to standard English forming the basis of BBC speak and writing. 100 years ago most dialect speakers did not read or write nor need to make themselves understod outside peer groups.

Isn't scouse a dirivative of an Irish accent ?