It seems that I am always coming up with interesting quick concepts such as "What if the Americas were colonized as Settler colony's everywhere?". Sometimes in the situations, starting a thread about the outcome of this is rather hard, because it would create so many butterflys. The point of this thread is mostly to pose a small prompt, then comment on how history would change, and what the world would be like, rather than focussing mostly on how the POD would occur.
I will start with: What if Anglo-Saxon England never got into the Norman Cnquest because of the availability of successors. Then, around 1300, a minor Dutch noble, maybe the Count of Holland, conquers England in a similar way to the Normans. So in this TL, Middle Dutch takes the place of Norman French. How would this worlds British isles look around 1700, especially linguistically and in the government?
I will start with: What if Anglo-Saxon England never got into the Norman Cnquest because of the availability of successors. Then, around 1300, a minor Dutch noble, maybe the Count of Holland, conquers England in a similar way to the Normans. So in this TL, Middle Dutch takes the place of Norman French. How would this worlds British isles look around 1700, especially linguistically and in the government?