Thinks Greg Stevens wondering about the fate of Pictish normal. I used wonder too. I read somewhere that Pict/ish was 'like' Welsh, but different. However that author might have lied, read some-other who lied or created the story.

Other possibilities are that the BBC makes lots of money telling fibs about it, when they already know the Picts spake Gaelic and it was the Scots who on being enslaved spread the lingo back to Ireland where yet earlier Picts lived but under terrible strain from all the drunks that arrived when the Romans kicked them out of England?

On the other hand, could not real English be the Welsh but hiding in Cardiff? In which case ye olde English is really South Walish but spoken by those fed a diet of Brains?

There is no doubt though that Cromwell was a major posteriorhole; besides helping behead a king he also ate ragwort which made him mighty smelly, so when he sat down all had to take a step backwards. Thus the old saying 'when Cromwell sits, the aire changeth - for the worse'.

King Blogger( Pictish for Cricketbat ) of Angster ( Ireland ) wasn't any better, of this it is writ 'f**t not before the king, for death is fouler'