At 12:40 15/03/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Probably when someone realized "que" was french for "k". When are you Limeys >going to get over the fact you were invaded in 1092 (that the right date?) >and go back to using Angel Saxton English instead of French English? <GRIN> >I think it was in "Ivanhoe" that Sir Walter Scott had a discussion about the >difference.
1092? Actually the invasion in 1066 was the best thing that had happened to us; Britain had been invaded for over 1000 years, but has never been successfully invaded since. The Norman conquests made Britain a nation, something it had never really been. The multi-lingual heritage of English is something I think is really beautiful and unique; not many languages have grown and changed as much as English over the last two thousand years, it still has the most words of any language in the world! Kev. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
