[geeks] English language [was: power (was Mr. Bill)]

[Phil Stracchino]

Sandwich Maker wrote:
> it always was since its birth.  saxon and danish in the first
> millennium, french in 1066,

Well, Norman rather, which was rather far from modern French.  The
Normans actually started out in the 10th century as expat Vikings.

(But then, the English of the time was rather far from modern English, too.)



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