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Message: [QUOTE="veivoli, post: 5314050, member: 14073"] My error was in not marking this as joke (the dying language bit). Of course languages evolve, and my father used to describe English as a mongrel language, with its borrowing of words from other languages. At least we don't have the equivalent of the Académie Française, trying to hold back the tide. Aside: King Canute (Knut) knew he was going to fail, and that was the point he was trying to make. I could relate a long and, to me anyway, funny story about the person who accused me of being a pendant when I corrected a spelling error, I leave it as exercise for the reader to imagine my reply. Interestingly I understand that the English spoken in some remote parts of the USA was much closer to that of the England the early immigrants left than that spoken in England nowadays. I say was as I'm guessing that that great leveler, television, will bring them more in line with other parts of the country. [/QUOTE]