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Re: CHAT: browsers

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 17:49
Joe scripsit:

> Talking about the Channel Islands - does anyone have any info on Guernseian > French?
Well, it's old-fashioned Normand, and the Ethnologue says there are 14,000 French-speakers in the British Isles altogether. Jerriais has perhaps 2500 speakers; there are probably even fewer in Guernsey. The official languages of both Bailiwicks is English. See this poem: http://www.internationalspecialreports.com/archives/00/jersey/7.html -- "Do I contradict myself? John Cowan Very well then, I contradict myself. jcowan@reutershealth.com I am large, I contain multitudes. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --Walt Whitman, _Leaves of Grass_ http://www.reutershealth.com