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| Do you live in a town with -chester, -caster or -cester in its name, for example Lanchester, Doncaster or Leicester? If you do, it’s likely that there was once a Roman fort or town nearby. | |
| Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey. | |
| Is your name Amanda or Anthony, Julia or Justin, Veronica or Victor? All these and many others come from Latin names and words. | |
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Latin didn’t die out with the Romans. It was the language used by the Christian monks, British and Saxon, and later by the Church. |
| It was the language used in education and business and even today is used to name plants and animal species, for example, humans are homo sapiens – wise man; a wild primrose is primula veris - a true primula. | |
| image courtesy of www.javajane.co.uk | |
| Look in any dictionary and you will discover that many of the words we use everyday come from Latin. | |
