LOL.. now that you mention William the Conqueror ( he was a granddaddy up the line ) and so was a King named Olaf ( I think he was Danish) ( pretty much Viking I would say )as well as some of those Louises and those Plantagenet fellows. Alexander the Great and Ptolemy and a couple of pharoahs. Now you know why I am so mixed up.. But anywho.. I thought avoirdupois meant "pound" or the FPS system as opposed to MKS/cgs (metric )
Rosie -------Original Message------- From: Sterling K. Webb Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 00:31:01 To: rochette Cc: meteorite-list Subject: "Re: [meteorite-list] avoirdupois ? Hi, Pierre, Of course, Early Middle English is not "just a British expression forged to look like French," but French as spoken by the British who were at that time French, at least the moneyed (and language determining) classes, descendants of the French who followed Guillaume de Normandie (whom the British now call William the Conqueror) to England after he defeated Harold Godwinson for the throne, Harold and his army being exhausted from having defeated another Viking invasion (this time from Norway) just three weeks earlier. I say "another" Viking invasion because Guillaume and all his French followers ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
