Well, others answered the IR questions while I was busy, so here's
some off-topic stuff I know a smidgen about.
> 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?)
You're probably thinking of William's invasion in 1066, the Battle
of Hastings, and all that. One of the medieval re-enactment groups
I'm in does a small recreation of the battles of Hastings and Stamford
Bridge each October.
> and go back to using Angel Saxton English instead of French English? <GRIN>
Old English sounds a lot like German to me (I don't speak either, so I
don't know how similar they sound to a German speaker).
Middle English is pretty cool, and I can nearly understand it[*]. As
far as I can tell, the jokes about Middle English being the result of
Norman soldiers trying to pick up Saxon women are about right.
-- Glenn
[*] BUt it's a pain to type in a mostly-ASCII environment, what with
thorns and eths and yoghs and diaresis marks and all those other nifty
bits. Looks pretty cool typeset, though I wound up using a numeral
three in place of the yogh because I couldn't find a font with a yogh
in it compatible with the stuff I was using.
PS: One of the more intelligible bits, from the song, "Man mai longe
lives weene":
Weilawei! Nis king ne queene thet ne ssel drink of deathes drench.
Man, er thu vall of thi bench, thi senn aquench.
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