Picture of Queen Boadicea and her Celts in their last stand against the Roman Invasion. Introduction from Tangiora: Last time we heard from the Spelling Queen how the Romans took their alphabet to Britain. Who were the next to invade and what did they contribute? Paquita – The Anglo-Saxons invaded next. They added some new letters to the alphabet to spell their sounds, new sounds that Romans and Celts did not use. For example, the sharp vowel sound [a] in AXE, SLASH, BASH and ANGLE and SAXON. They spread their language across the land and the old Celtic languages only survived in faraway places like Wales and Scotland. They called their part of Britain England and they spoke English, whic
Tangiora: We’re going to learn some history this morning that is centred around the alphabet which arrived in Britain many years ago, when the Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and decided to stay. We shall ask our Spelling Queen to shed some light on this subject . Paquita: The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and stayed on. They took their alphabet with them. It only had 21 letters then but that was enough letters to spell their words, Latin words, and the local Celtic words too. The Celts were the Aborigines of Britain. Later on the Romans needed Z to spell some Greek words they adopted. Zed was the sixth letter in the Greek alphabet but the Romans did not want it in theirs. It was the
