[Don Carlos]

Did you see Turk2's post #36? I dragged my wife off the sofa to read it!

It is indeed interesting how these tiny splinters, broken off the main branch hundreds of years before, manage to survive.

Thanks for responding!

[Turk2]

Well, actually, that tiny splinter was composed of far more than 100,000 people 510 years ago. Glad you liked the post, by the way,

[pierrem15]

Yes-- I saw it earlier but didn't try to read it-- if you know French, a little Latin & read it as phonetically spelled Spanish it's quite understandable. I'm sure the pronunciation is quite different from contemporary Spanish. Real Castillano sounds like Italian or Provencal to me.