[lbo-talk] Quebec separatism

[Jim Devine]

> Your "breuvage" example is nice.  Modern English has a double
> vocabulary of a similar sort -- cattle/beef, sheep/mutton,
> pig/pork, etc.  The first is Anglo-Saxon, the second
> Norman-French -- arising from who was tending the the animals
> in the field and who was dining on them at table.  And that
> distinction resulted from the unfortunate reversals that
> Harold II suffered on a hill at Senlac, near Hastings, in 1066
> CE.  --CGE

yeah, I wish Harold II had won at Hastings, too.
;-)

Jim Devine