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On Mar 30, 2024 at 10:03:50 PM PDT, "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

> On 2024-03-31 03:48:30 +0000, suzeeq said:
>>  On 3/30/2024 7:28 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>>  
>>>  I apologize in advance to Americans who are inevitably aggrieved by all
>>>  things French just on principle but this video actually makes a pretty
>>>  good case for saying that English is badly-pronounced French to a large
>>>  extent.
>>>  
>>>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUL29y0vJ8Q [18 minutes]
>>>  
>>>  When he explains all the English words that are borrowed from French
>>>  with only slight spelling and pronunciation changes, you may well be
>>>  persuaded by his argument.
>>  
>>  I wondered why the Brits call cookies 'biscuits'. Then I realized it 
>>  comes from the French word for cookies 'bicotte'. They also call 
>>  eggplants 'aubergines' and zucchini 'corgettes'. There's probably 
>>  dozens of other words I can't recall now.
> 
> The English language originates from a melding of many sources with 
> words being 'borrowed' from other languages, including French, German, 
> Gaelic, Celtic, etc.   Some words have altered over time, but some 
> words (e.g. rendezvous) have stayed the same as the original.
> 
> "American English" is a sub-version that has its own unique spellings 
> and meanings for words. Partly because (despite hating the British 
> rule) they have stubbornly stuck to out-dated versions of words, as 
> well as out-dated measurement systems

There are the countries that use the metric system and then there are the
countries that have put men on the moon.