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14+ Informative and Interesting Facts About English Mastiffs

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#13 And every time in English clubs, breeders patiently fought to restore the number of mastiffs.

#14 Mastiffs, sometimes referred to as Old English Mastiffs, take their name from the Latin word mansuetus, meaning “tame” or “domesticated.”

#15 The Latin word was eventually transformed via Old French and Middle English into the word mastiff, which was first recorded in Middle English in a work written before 1387.

Mary Allen

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