English and Proud.

[cappy]

no,! No,! No! Keith.
We cannot have ities, krauts and frogs. In our heritage. They never ever came to bolton. My viking ancestors would have kicked them out.
Brian

###i went to bolton once ....and spread my seed not on the ground......so they have norske svenska deuchand a big.... Wallop of yankee mongrel.......cappy

[Captain Kong]

My last BRITISH PASSPORT was issued on 7 January 1975, expired 1985 and then issued with the ridiculous European passport.
Cheers
Brian

[Braid Anderson]

#43 I can see your point Cappy. Foolishness is a crime, as is taking care of abused kids. Both should be severely punished. I controlled my own Destiny by marrying a woman who stole my money. In the same way as Nelson controlled his own destiny by getting in the way of the missile that killed him.

[happy daze john in oz]

Here in Oz there is no payment paid by citizens toward the state pension but as long as you have been employed for ten years or more you are entitled. Payments are made to refugees etc but are not considered as pensions.
In UK we al paid into the system via contributions which in my opinion are the monies of those who paid, not the gov to give to anyone they think fit. Why should those of other EU countries who have not contributed be getting some of OUR monies???

[cappy]

#43 i can see your point cappy. Foolishness is a crime, as is taking care of abused kids. Both should be severely punished. I controlled my own destiny by marrying a woman who stole my money. In the same way as nelson controlled his own destiny by getting in the way of the missile that killed him.

braid foolishness is no crime .....how would taking care of children be a crime ....i agree on the woman ......and of course nelson new full well what his destiny would be walking the quarterdeck with medal and gold admiral trappings ...........
Perhaps enough said by us both on this regards cappy

[David Williams]

Hi Keith.
If William the Conqueror had lost,
would he have been known as
"BILL THE RUNNER UP"?
David Williams

[Keith at Tregenna]

And had he not been illegitimate, would he have been just william ?

K

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[Rodney Mills]

In the summer of the Roman year 699, now described as the year 55 before the birth of Christ, the Proconsul of Gaul, Gaius Julius Ceasar turned his gaze upon Britain. In the midst of his wars in Germany and in Gaul [todays France] he became conscious of this heavy Island which stirred his ambitions....He knew that it was inhabited by the same type of tribesmen who confronted the Roman arms in Germany, Gaul, and Spain....They were the same Germanic and Celtic stock,...

....Refugees from momentarily conquered Gaul [France] were welcomed and sheltered in Britannia.

Palaeolithic Brittania.

...We have dug up in the present age from the gravel of Swanscombe a human skull which is certainly a quarter of a million years old...It is said that the whole of Southern England could support upon its game no more than seven hundred families...At the close of the Ice Age changes in climate brought about the collapse of the hunting civilization of the Old Stone Age Man, and after a long period of time and tides of invasion brought Neolithic culture into the Western forests...It seemed at this time the whole of Western Europe man consisted of a long headed stock, and known to a general resemblance of the people living there [Britannia]..Into this long headed population there was driven a wedge of round-headed immigrants from the east known to anthropolgists as 'the Alpine race.' A Germanic tribe...A great majority of skulls found in Britain, of whatever age have been of this long or medium headed type. ... it is known that the Beaker people [from Rhineland, central Germany]and other round-headed types penetrated Brittania, and established themselves as a definite element throughout Britain [even Bolton].

[Conclusion: Stoneage Britain was populated from Germanic and Iberian Spanish peninsula (Celtic) tribes, per the author]

"Then came the Romans [Italians], Saxons, Angles[Germans], Jutes, Vikings [Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians], Normans a blend of French speaking Viking and French....

...For over a hundred years French was the official (court) language and English was known as the vulgar tongue.



The English Language.

"The English language belongs to the West German Branch of the Indio-European family of languages.

"...and is divided into three groups:...

"Old English (450-1100AD)...5th century AD, three Germanic tribes invaded England, Saxons, Angles, and Jutes and pushed the local inhabitants into Wales, Scotland, and Cornwall. Throughout the years these three tribe intermingled their native dialect. [The name English ('Englisc' ) comes from the name of the Angles].

"Before this conquest the language was a mixture of Celtic and Latin [this was pre-Roman Latin]. The Roman occupation, 400 years, introduced Latin and Greek as did the spread of Christianity...Then came the Danes, who's language [Old Norse] was Germanic too and was easily incorporated into Saxon English.

"Middle English (1100 circa 1500 AD)...Many Norman French words were added and the pronunciation of vowels changed [The Great Vowel Shift]

"Modern English (1500 to the present). During English Renaissance [Elizabethan times] much more Latin was introduced along with Greek. This was the time we could read and understand the language as English.... During the Industrial Revolution and The Empire Age many Indian, African, Arabic, Asian and even Australian native words [kangaroo for one] were incorporated into the English language [and today many Americanisms]."

[If you take offence or doubt the validity of the above information do not 'blame the messenger'....ME.... Blame the author (who is more of an American than I am, he, after all, had an American mother.]


Winston S. Churchill. A History of the English Speaking People. Vol. I and Vol. 4.


Today the English language is the most vibrant tongue and has the most words. It continuously borrows words from other languages and, along with the rest of the English speaking world, continues to invent or borrow new words almost on a daily basis.

[Rodney Mills]

Re post #16 Start with Yorkshire?

Yorkshire Flag (attachment)

"It means laid in the grass with a girl...It means gazing at the clouds in a sky that's so blue...."

Geeze! I got LAID once in the grass with a girl, but damned if I could tell you the color of the sky...heck, I wouldn't even have known if it was raining!

[happy daze john in oz]

The English language must be one of the hardest in the world. So many words sounding the same, spelt differently and with different meanings. Words such as to, too and two as well as for, fore and four. The bow and bow, there and their the list goes on. As the French man said does that cow have a cough or I it a bough.