"Cruinthe?" Phryne tilted her head, brows furrowing at the unfamiliar word. Obviously he meant English, but she couldn't place 'Cruinthe' in any of the languages she knew. "We call it English after the original speakers, the Angles." And probably the Saxons and the Jutes, but Phryne's history could be a little patchy. "They eventually colonized much of the world and spread the language."

He did have a look of a different era about him. How extraordinary if he'd come from before the Romans left the British Isles! "May I ask where and when you're from?"