Re: Flag of England
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 18, 2000, 13:17 |
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At 14:17 17.6.2000 -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>I'm curious -- why England?
Because English became English in England, and spread from there.
>English has been spoken in parts of Scotland
>for the better part of a thousand years.
Scots is not English. Did Norwegians speak Danish during that better part
of a thousand years when Danish was imposed on them as a written language?
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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