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    Many place names are named after people but what does Wales mean?

    Question #34456. Asked by taffy. (May 28 03 1:34 PM)


    Tabby Tom

    		It's from the Old English 'wealh', meaning a foreigner, and by extension a slave. Wales, from the Anglo-Saxon point of view, was the land of the foreigners.

    The Angles and Saxons, like their modern English descendants, believed that facts didn't depend on geography: foreigners were always foreigners, even in their own country.


    May 28 03, 2:28 PM

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