Michael Goormachtigh is the author of this book. During his professional life, he worked as an independent entrepreneur and database specialist, managing large databases with names and addresses for his clients. It was while he was working for an English client that his sixth sense kicked in. He noticed that the addresses in Wales are strikingly different from those in England. He knew that the Anglo-Saxons supposedly imported the English language and that before the whole of Britain was believed to be Celtic-speaking. Where are the Celtic, Welsh-like names, for instance, in East Anglia? Did the Anglo-Saxons change local place names? Why did they not change hundreds of old Roman names, such as Londinium? Why can nobody explain the etymology of Londinium? Twenty years ago, after learning historical linguistics, he discovered that the Old Britons spoke, in reality, a Germanic language, proto-English, way before the arrival of the Romans. The Celtic Continent also spoke Germanic. Thanks to this discovery, numerous Roman-era place-names can now be explained. A breakthrough!
