Is Anglo-Saxon and Germanic the same to you?

[Zeus]

no, angles and saxons are specific subgroups of Germanics that invaded and occupied England in the aftermath of the fall of the Roman Empire.

[billErobreren]

They were a confederation of North Sea Germans that spoke near identical dialects and were setting up petty kingdoms in old Albion. North Germanic sentence structure itself is pretty far withdrawn from its continental West Germanic counterparts; Anglo-Saxons and Lowland Scots sort of made a little hemisphere of their own within those islands. They are Germanic, an offshoot, but Germanic nonetheless.

I always wondered why the term Anglo-Saxon is in use. Britain wouldn't be what it is today if it wasn't for the Normans and their conquest changing Britain forever politically, culturally and linguistically let alone their thirst for world domination. Thanks to them english is spoken all over the world as well.

Folks who'd say WASP here are either not Anglo-Scottish by stock nor are they from Protestant families. From what I've seen, it's mostly outsiders that use it to describe anything British sprout as "Anglo-Saxon": the French still say it and so do Hispanophones. And although Normans might've given Britain a more ambitious and cosmopolitan outlook, mean English speech is mostly stem from Old English and its current sentence structure is more like that of Danish/Swedish/Norwegian than French or Italian. It was English speakers that won the day and asserted themselves in Britain best not Welshmen, Gaels nor Francophone Normans. It's like I've said before, our Greco-Latin vocabulary is mostly decorum, just word glitter.

[TheOldNorth]

Why would it be different?

Anglo-Saxon is a retrospective term in England.

Germanic can also refer to Germans, Scandinavians, and the dutch

[Creoda]

Germanic can also refer to Germans, Scandinavians, and the dutch

I meant why wouldn't Anglo-Saxons be considered Germanic. It's literally an historical term to describe the various Germanic invaders of Britain in the post-Roman period.

[TheOldNorth]

I meant why wouldn't Anglo-Saxons be considered Germanic. It's literally an historical term to describe the various Germanic invaders of Britain in the post-Roman period.

well yeah but "is anglo-saxon germanic?" and "is anglo-saxon and germanic the same?" are different questions

[The Lawspeaker]

I think that the Lowland Scots are also, partially Germanic.

[FountainOfSalmacis]

How can germanic speaking tribes of southern Denmark and northwestern Germany not be Germanic.

[TheOldNorth]

How can germanic speaking tribes of southern Denmark and northwestern Germany not be Germanic.

well they bred with and assimilated celts to the point of becoming mostly celtic by blood

[Matty74]

So basically the area around the Wadden- and North Sea.

[21993]

Not the same. Austria is Germanic but not Anglo Saxon. However, Anglo Saxon nations or countries are subset of Germanic countries and nations.