On Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:53:26 -0600 Greg & Amy said:
>Darn those pesky progressives!  The English language should have stayed
>the same once Beowulf came out.  Those durned Normans had no respect for
>'traditional values'!    Smite them! Smite them all!

oi! - it were them Angles and Jutes what mangled the language long before the
Normans set foot on British soil.