Re: pictish

wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> wrote:
> John Cowan >Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
>>Well, exactly; that shows the influence of French Rationalism.  After all,
>>you don't go about looking for the counterpart of the Eiffel Tower in
>>London, or the name "Christophe Grandsire" in English.  :-)
>>
> Millenium Wheel? Crystal Palace?
> Chistopher Grandfather :)
    As I've previously mentioned to Christophe by email, my wife has a
friend named Christopher Oldfather, and once when I was looking at
Christophe's webpages she noticed his name and mentioned that it looked like
a French translation of her friend's name.

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