"In the Translation"
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So I'm descended from Saxon pig farmers - sue me. :-)

No, seriously, you're right. English is a language born of some serious mixing, and the USofA is the land where the whole world came together. How did we get so insular? I really don't know, but it's ending in a hurry. Mazeltov!

Thanks.

5/12/2008 3:36:00 PM [ Report Abuse ]

Of course, many French words, like some 60,000, were incorporated into our language by the French invasion of Britain in 1066. The French stayed nearly 400 years (as the English stayed in India) and French was the elite, "cultured" language of the people of the isles. Real English was practically a farmer's language at that time. That's the way I learned it, anyway. Good blog.

5/12/2008 8:46:28 AM [ Report Abuse ]