the land and attacked the Celts."
             "Which tribes were they?"
             "The other tribes were the Anglens from Denmark, the Jutes from Denmark, and the Frisians from Holand."
             "What did the Celts do with these tribes attacking them?"
             "The Celts all spilt up and went to different places. Some went to Ireland, some went to France and founded Britainy, and some went to Whales where they dug the Great Ditch. The Great Ditch was a border between Whales and England that the Celts used to keep the enemies out of Whales."
             "This all sounds exciting," said Pinocchio, "but what does this have anything to do with the English language?"
             "Well Pinocchio, when the Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain they brought their German language with them. The Anglo-Saxons German language contributed two characteristics to our English language. One is the use of alliteration. Alliteration is a sentence or phrase with the same sound at the beginning of the words. For example, sally sold sea snails would be an alliteration because of the s sound at the beginning of each word. The other one is the use of kennings. A kenning is when two words are put together to make one word. An example of a kenning would be the word hair and the word brush to make the word hairbrush. Also, the German language is Old English and 90% of basic building block words used today are Old English. But the German language was mostly a spoken language, not a written language. Let's travel to 597 A.D. when language was first put in writing.
             "Here we are Pinocchio. We are now in 597 A.D., when the conversion to Christianity took place. The conversion to Christianity started when a monk named Augustine was sent by the Pope to convert the Anglo-Saxons in England to Christians."
             "Did Augustine speak German?" asked Pinocchio.
             "No, monks spoke Latin. From the Latin language we got words like...