Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>:
>
> > > Keith Gaughan wrote:
> > > Dutch is essentially English with all the vowels doubled.
> >
> > I prefer to think of if as English being essentially Dutch with all
> > double vowels halved.
>
> <roll on the floor from laughter> I love this reply!!! (imagining a big
Saxon
> warrior with a giant axe walking in direction of poor frightened words
with
> double vowels, among which only a few will manage to escape :))) )
Only a few indeed, such as the now famous aardvark for instance.
Maarten