Yet it is doubtful whether Latin 'ti' had really come to be pronounced 'tsi' in Britain so early as A.D.450.

And it is plainly possible that the Saxons may have learnt the name long years before the reputed date of Hengist and Horsa.

The Kentish coast was armed against them and the organization of the 'Saxon Shore' established about A.D.300.

Their knowledge of the place-name may be at least as old.

No other difficulty seems to hinder the derivation of 'Kent' from the form 'Cantium', and the whole argument based on the name thus collapses.