[Sca-cooks] eths and thorns, oh my

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In a message dated 9/25/01 7:29:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, lcm at efn.org
writes:

> English isn't the same sort of language as French or Spanish- there are
>  some borrowed words, but the root system is vastly different. French,
>  Spanish, Italian, etc are 'Romance' languages- descended from a Latin,
>  or 'Roman' base. English is a Germanic language, one of many from
>  ancient Germanic/Norse roots. (Hence some of our weird-ass grammar and
>  spelling conventions like tough/trough/through.)

Didn't English come about through the fusion of Norman-French and Anglo-Saxon
English? And what is really screwed up is that 60% of our language comes from
latin where the other 40% is german, yet they call us a Germanic language.
Weird

Misha