Consider Manchester. It is a former Roman fort which was known as Mamuciam. Other places with Roman derivations include Lancaster and Leicester. A significant impact on English which came from the ...

Most European languages that use the Latin source alphabet, Barrett notes, “have the W only because they borrowed English words like whiskey. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have it.

The roman alphabet will lose some of its dominance of the Internet beginning Monday when the organisation overseeing website addresses starts testing 11 new languages for domain names.