This is DEFINITELY a FUN way to learn!!!!! :-) I haven't laughed this hard in a long time! Pat McCoy =============================================== Dieter Taube wrote: > Hi to all, > > it seems that I found another uncommon English word, and surely it will > happen again in the future. > That is no fault of mine, it's due to these Vikings (or Normans). > 1000 years ago we spoke nearly the same language. Then William the > conqueror landed in England and the Anglosaxons incorporated a lot of > French words and structures in their language. To date I did not get > accustomed to this :) > > I learned a new vocable - whalebone -, and from your mails I know > something more about corsets. I return the favour by granting a new > German style English word: whalebonecorsetsmanufactory. > > * Dieter > > ==== GERMAN-KINGDOMS Mailing List ==== > Going on Vacation? Longer than 5 days? Please unsubscribe > It is click and send ready > mailto:German-Kingdoms-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe