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The Danish language was once widely spoken in the northeast counties of England.

As a consequence, many words of Danish origin such as gate (gade) for street, still survive in Yorkshire and other parts of eastern England colonized by Danish Vikings. The city of York in England was once the Danish Viking settlement of Jorvik.

Because English and Danish are related languages, many words are similar in the two languages.

For example, the following Danish words are easily recognizable in their written form to English speakers: have, over, under, give, salt. When pronounced however, these words sound quite different from their English equivalents.