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-es vs -en in English

From:abrigon <abrigon@...>
Date:Saturday, December 4, 1999, 8:17
I used to think the way you do Ray, until I read how in the final days
of French in the Law Courts and Court how much was added on not from
common usage, but for nostalgia... Remember those who normally wrote
attended schools, schools used dictionaries and common basic outlines of
education, some what based on the old Greco-Roman System, so it is not
unlikely that the upper classes were the ones who could write and they
had the influnces from French, and they forced it on the rest cause they
could..

Mike


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