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Updated: May 17, 2025
It is generally held now that the Slavs gave themselves the name as being 'the intelligible, or 'the intelligibly speaking' people; as in the case of many other races, they regarded their strange-speaking neighbours as 'barbarian, that is 'stammering, or even as 'dumb. So the Russians call their neighbours the Germans njemets, connected with njemo, indistinct.
King John has slept at Duncroft Hall, and all the day before the little town of Staines has echoed to the clang of armed men, and the clatter of great horses over its rough stones, and the shouts of captains, and the grim oaths and surly jests of bearded bowmen, billmen, pikemen, and strange-speaking foreign spearmen.
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