Re: Word of the day

On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 16:37:07 +0100, Papotine wrote:

Because now we have words such as "week-end" and "challenge" : they come
from up north, no doubt about this.


Fair exchange for "pork" and "beef", I reckon. I can't understand
why, when the "Normans" were named for the "Norsemen" and came from
"Normandy", it was French that they introduced into the English
language, and not Scandinavian.

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Liz
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