Bill Potts wrote in USMA 20213: >On the US version of Windows XP, the control panel applet is "Regional and >Language Settings." > >Metric is, of course, an option. There are several English options (even >including "English (Zimbabwe)", for example). The two main ones are labeled >English (United States) and English (United Kingdom). There's no English >(Anglo-Saxon). Modern English is descended from Anglo-Saxon, which is a very >old language and very unlike the English of today (i.e., totally >incomprehensible, except to some scholars who specialize in such things).
I suspect that the term "Anglo-Saxon" does not refer to language, but is a sarcastic designation of the origin of the imperial system of measures, which can certainly be traced back to Anglo-Saxon times. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
