>From the english spoken in latter day latin- invaded England turned Brittania
>( Caesar first, and then the Normans). The real thing is 'dankin', so 'thank'
>you, Angala Merkel, and all your friends in Anglia on the Rhine.
I used 'gracias', when i meant to say 'gracious', in a recent post: a sneaky
attempt make it to that special class - car washed, manicured lawn, vindaloo
chef, perhaps. In his 'History of the Enjlish Language', the Canadian, McNeil
writes of the adoption of French as the language of Court after the Norman
conquest, until the abolition in revenge over the War of the Roses three
centuries later. The trade school kid spoke Germanic, he claims, not so the
ones' out of Eton and Harrow - in a show the flag scene, he writes, the special
class obtains it's 'victuals' when 'famished', from a 'poultry' farm: Saxon
hicks could feed on chicken when hungry ! McNeil is a tad outdated today -
with a little prodding from those 'B' teachers at Goan High, Mombasa, a nice
Goan kid, by any chosen name, can 'elegantly' (latin) out-'Victorianise'
(latin) any 'to the manor born' scholar(latin) out of Oxford. eric.
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