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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by kimbrit Hi Joe, For the record mate, that was the Normans. We usually beat the c**p out of the French and then pull them out of it when the Germans go on a european tour. Another little tit-bit, the good old V sign, of the insulting sort, came about around the time of Agincourt when the French used to cut the first and middle fingers off when they captured an English long- bow man. Before the battle the longbow men gave the French the V sign to show they had their fingers. The rest, as they say, is...................... Cheers, Kim [tup] Assimilating invaders, hmmmm, are we the Borg??[;)] [/quote] Kim, Yes, ah... the Normans. They didn't stay French for long. Much of the vocabulary we use today is of Norman extraction. English has the dubious honor of being a Germanic language with Romance (i.e. the Romans) vocabulary.
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