Re: Is it armour or armor?

From: gribouille (gribouille@brutele.be)
Date: Sat Oct 22 2005 - 00:48:09 PDT


The french word to call a knight's armour is "Armure".

Regards,

Mithril

----- Original Message -----
From: "dgrev" <dgrev@iinet.net.au>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 1:47 AM
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
> 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.
>
> It does not encourage me to learn that all this time I have
> 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.
>
> I have not been able to prove or disprove his information:
> perhaps others on this list would know?
>
> I am also curious (a "u" again!) as to why the US wants to
> state dates in the peculiar fashion it does. There is nothing
> logical about putting month/day/year.
>
> Regards
> Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferret-heaven@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ferret-heaven@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of dgrev
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:47 AM
> To: Ferret-heaven@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Ferret-heaven] Out of Town Until 10/22
>
> > Ian
>
> >> I will be out of town until 10/22, and will respond to all emails
> >> then!
>
>
> > Since our common interest is a certain British MV, I will take it that
> > you actually meant that date as 22/10? ;-)
>
> > Got to be authentic, eh what old chap........
>
> > Regards
> > Doug
>
>
>
>
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