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Subject:Re: What the f -at- #$? From:Heilan Yvette Grimes <HEP2 -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 27 Jul 1994 18:32:30 EDT
>Just my two cents, Canadian--We had to learn all this in school. Did any of
you
>Americans on this list have to study English history in any detail? Just
>curious.
We didn't have to study the entymology of English, although I always found it
fascinating and spent many squinty hours reading the OED.
Did you see the television series a few years ago, "The Story of English?"
There was also an accompanying book. Fascinating stuff.
