From: J. L. (milveh@dslextreme.com)
Date: Fri Oct 21 2005 - 22:43:37 PDT
Ah, the French again...armour armor armoire...lol Well, how about this
Of course you might know the only city in America to be build below sea
The Colonies got off to a good start with English, then we started
Did you know we never resolved what our national language should be, even to
version "armure" (as in chevalier) this refers to a knights armour.
level was sold to us by the French before we discovered you couldn't even
dig a cemetary there? New Orleans, what a swamp..wish they would buy it
back, but fat chance now that we wrecked it!
amalgamating different languages and who knows what we call our language
now, it's a bit of olde English and 100 other things I suspect. In my area
we speak some Thai, H'mong, Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Portuguese and of
course English, more Spanish and English than the others by far, but it's
all fairly common depending on the particular area. In the U.S. state where
I lived before we spoke English, Hawaiian and Japanese in that order. In
Louisianna it's English, French, Spanish. It gets worse, the Spanish we
speak in California is a lot different than the Spanish they speak in Spain,
or even the Spanish they speak in Mexico! Funny country, eh?
this day? In the begining (1776) we drafted the Constitution in German and
English because there were so many German speaking citizens, and way back
then there was some debate which language should be used as our principal
language! lol
au revoir mon amee' and cheers...
Jacques LeMay-Lee, Fr., Eng.,
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Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 4:48 PM
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Subject: [MV] Is it armour or armor?
Ian
> I STAND CORRECTED. At least I spell "armor" as "armoUr".....
As do we in Oz.
The other day one of your fellow countrymen pointed out that
It does not encourage me to learn that all this time I have
I have not been able to prove or disprove his information:
I am also curious (a "u" again!) as to why the US wants to
Regards
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> Ian
>> I will be out of town until 10/22, and will respond to all emails
> Since our common interest is a certain British MV, I will take it that
> Got to be authentic, eh what old chap........
> Regards
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the differences in British to US spelling came about due to
the US spelling actually being the correct spelling of words
in use in England at the time of the Pilgrim Fathers.
In the period after the fleet left England the
English Royalty had an infatuation with things French and
affected French spellings of English words where ever
possible.
In the main, this would appear to be the addition of the
letter "u". I do not have a French dictionary to hand, but
seem to recall that the French word for armour (tank) is
"Char". What they called a knight's armour I don't know?
So it does appear to be the case of "affecting a French spelling"
rather than use of the actuall French word.
been using pseudo French. However, I am not all that convinced
that you lot in the US are speaking c1700 English either, as
your English is now rather intermixed with Spanish, Yiddish
and countless African dialects.
perhaps others on this list would know?
state dates in the peculiar fashion it does. There is nothing
logical about putting month/day/year.
Doug
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Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:47 AM
To: Ferret-heaven@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Ferret-heaven] Out of Town Until 10/22
>> then!
> you actually meant that date as 22/10? ;-)
> Doug
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