When did the Linguistic Unification of the British Isles become inevitable?

When did the Linguistic Unification of the British Isles become inevitable?

  • As soon as the British Isles became islands and were inhabited by people

    Votes: 1 3.0%
  • The Roman Invasion of Britain

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain and the creation of the Heptarchy

    Votes: 2 6.1%
  • The Unification of England in the 10th century

    Votes: 2 6.1%
  • The Norman Conquest of England

    Votes: 1 3.0%
  • Norman Expansion into Wales, Ireland, and the Davidian Revolution in Scotland

    Votes: 5 15.2%
  • The English Conquests of Wales and Ireland + the Union of Crowns with Scotland

    Votes: 10 30.3%
  • The Acts of Union in 1536, 1707 and 1801

    Votes: 6 18.2%
  • After the Acts of Union

    Votes: 3 9.1%
  • It was never innevitable

    Votes: 3 9.1%

  • Total voters
    33
  • Poll closed .
When did the Linguistic Unificication of the British Isles become inevitable?
By this I mean the spread of English into Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man etc so that in each country/crown dependency, and English becoming more widely spoken in each of these territories than the indigenous language of each one.
 
When did the Linguistic Unificication of the British Isles become inevitable?
By this I mean the spread of English into Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man etc so that in each country/crown dependency, and English becoming more widely spoken in each of these territories than the indigenous language of each one.
Around the Industrial Revolution I would say.
 
I voted for the Union of the Crowns. After that, Scotland's monarch resided in London and spoke English. While personal union doesn't always result in a blending of cultures, in the case of two neighboring nations it seems more likely.
 
Around the Industrial Revolution I would say.

To some extent this.

Inevitability is a tricky one - at a point in the early twentieth century, for example, it looked as though Cornish was dead, but a recent revival has resurrected it. Same goes for Welsh and Scots at various points and levels.

I think actually the big turning point is the beginning of the compulsory schooling acts in 1870. Whilst arguably English was becoming dominant before that, once you start having primary schools teaching English as the curriculum standard the rates of other languages goes into rapid decline.

Same goes for regional dialects too - although they lingered on you don't get Yorkshire or Lancashire spellings these days. Not in formal writing unless the accent itself is specifically being referenced or used.
 
To some extent this.

Inevitability is a tricky one - at a point in the early twentieth century, for example, it looked as though Cornish was dead, but a recent revival has resurrected it. Same goes for Welsh and Scots at various points and levels.
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Well, 557 people reported in the last UK census that Cornish was their primary language. This out of a total population of 536,000 in Cornwall. I think it's cool that it's been revived a bit, but it's got a ways to go.
 
Ireland could always have gone the way of Finland. It was only really the Cromwellian conquest that did it in for the Irish language.
 
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