Latin lessons for the masochists amongst us! G'day All. Do you remember how to conjugate a verb or did you flunk Latin as I did? amo amas amat - is about all I remember- sorry Mr Holland . I see the National Archives has a tutorial available online for those who wish to experience the torture they missed out on in High School! http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/beginners/tutorial/default.htm There is also a course on Palaeography 1500 to 1800 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/ That should keep you all very busy for the rest of June! There will be a twenty minute oral test and a 2 hour written examination at the end of this email <grin> Cheers Wendy Warwick List Admin.
Hi Listers, My daughter, Brittany, has been reading a thick book of English history, and she has asked me a question that I am not able to answer, so thought I would throw it out to you. While not dealing exclusively with Warwickshire perhaps, it does deal with British origins. >From the book, A History Of England and the British Empire by Walter Phelps Hall, my daughter read the following sentence: "The last of these early invaders were the so-called Celts, the first of five conquerors--Celt Roman Saxon Dane and Norman--about whom there is some written knowledge." First of all, we found this sentence to be a bit confusing--how could they be the last *and* the first? Does anyone know where the Celts came from? Are they Irish? Scots? Welsh? or English? or perhaps their blood flows in all Britts' veins? The book says that no one knows where they came from, but I figured since this was written in 1953 that perhaps something had been discovered since then. Worth a try, right? Any input welcome. Regards, Faith Capnerhurst On floodwatch in hopefully not too sunny Chilliwack, BC, Canada researching CAPNERHURST/CAPENHURST, CHADD, CARRINGTON, SMITH, CLARK(E) & ALLEN >From: "Wendy Boland" <wendy.boland@bigpond.com> >To: <warwick@rootsweb.com> >Subject: [WAR] Latin lessons for the masochists amongst us! >Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:14:54 +1000 > >Latin lessons for the masochists amongst us! > >G'day All. > >Do you remember how to conjugate a verb or did you flunk Latin as I did? >amo amas amat - is about all I remember- sorry Mr Holland . > >I see the National Archives has a tutorial available online for those who >wish to experience the torture they missed out on in High School! > >http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/beginners/tutorial/default.htm > >There is also a course on Palaeography 1500 to 1800 >http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/ > >That should keep you all very busy for the rest of June! > >There will be a twenty minute oral test and a 2 hour written examination >at the end of this email <grin> >Cheers >Wendy >Warwick List Admin. > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail. Now with better security, storage and features. www.newhotmail.ca?icid=WLHMENCA149
Wendy Boland wrote: > Latin lessons for the masochists amongst us! > > G'day All. > > Do you remember how to conjugate a verb or did you flunk Latin as I did? > amo amas amat - is about all I remember- sorry Mr Holland . 8>< snip You're one up on me then <G> I never did Latin at school because my maths wasn't good enough!! I'm still trying to figure out the connection xx years on. I'm doing a couple of short courses at the local record office on both Latin and Paelography later this year but I'll have a look at the links as well. -- Charani (UK)
>amo amas amat - is about all I remember- sorry Mr Holland . amamus amatis amant - I couldn't resist showing off!! Miss ROBERTSON be overwhelmed!! But what is palaeography? That is definitely GREEK to me? Anne from Sheffield
...Mr Holland never got far teaching me, and Vergil was the end of it. Wendy and I have compared notes!! But having a pocket Latin-English dictionary in the research kit is very useful because I soon discovered that archive staff rarely know even basics!!!! On one occasion, it was a phrase used in an archive's own calendars...and nobody, not even the head honcho, knew what it meant. Family historians who didn't have to suffer study of Latin in school may find one of the books such as "Latin for Family Historians" of more help. There are several with similar titles - a trawl on GenFair should come up with the goods!! Jacqui ----- Original Message ----- From: A P L To: wendy.boland@bigpond.com ; warwick@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 8:56 AM Subject: Re: [WAR] Latin lessons for the masochists amongst us! >amo amas amat - is about all I remember- sorry Mr Holland . amamus amatis amant - I couldn't resist showing off!! Miss ROBERTSON be overwhelmed!! But what is palaeography? That is definitely GREEK to me? Anne from Sheffield ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.11/838 - Release Date: 07/06/2007 14:21