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Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Airport X-ray
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:25:16 -0800

On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 07:57  AM, Roger Wesson wrote:

Well as I understand it Guillaume and his conquerors weren't actually French, they were Vikings who had previously headed south for better weather. Normans = Norsemen. As we weren't conquered by the French we are perfectly entitled to ruin France!

To have been conquered by the French would have been galling indeed :)

Roger

And that is why we all speak a Scandinavian tongue. Hmm. How did all those French words get into the language?

Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California, USA


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