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To: Cronos; All

It took me a bit, but I found a video I came across last Spring while taking world history:

The Origin of Old English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC4QEEU8Td0


50 posted on 05/31/2015 11:38:26 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom
Thanks!!!

english is comparatively simple compared to most languages except for

  1. various pronounciations of the word "the"
  2. the past perfect tense "having had" tosses most people for a six
  3. completely illogical spelling -- "bough, cough, touch"


70 posted on 06/01/2015 8:38:09 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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