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NibeIungsnarf posted...

2SweetforTurtle posted...

That other guy is wrong. Allemagne/Alemania is the latin. What we use comes from the Shakespear era. IIRC at that time people called them Allemagnes in English and someone wrote a book where they called them Germans instead and it just became commonplace until the country was formed like 300 years later.

Did you forget to change to your Complete_Idi0t account?

The Roman empire had a province in modern day Germany called Germania 1500 years before Shakespeare.

Lmfao, no I'm not wrong.

In English, the word "German" is first attested in 1520, replacing earlier uses of Almain, Alman and Dutch...
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The English term Germans is only attested from the mid-16th century, based on the classical Latin term Germani used by Julius Caesar and later Tacitus. It gradually replaced Dutch and Almains, the latter becoming mostly obsolete by the early 18th century

From two wiki articles (haha wiki is my source).

I said from Shakespear era as in mid 16th century.

Yes the term comes from much earlier, but I was specifically talking about the English use.
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