| ??? 06/07/05 17:48 Read: times |
#94464 - shires Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Let's see if this qualifies as ironic.
We're talking about Indian languages, which led to the American Indians, which are only Indians because an Italian, paid by a Spainiard to find a better route to the spice trades, had absolutely no clue that he was just about as far off course as was physically possible. Anyway, it was all about the spices. And what's the principle spice? What's the Mother of all spices? Salt. Now am I mistaken, or is it not the case that English towns that end with the suffix "shire" were originally built up around a salt work? |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| how dangerous the infantile use of SMS c | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I'll fess up. I said it. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| TV = TeleVision | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| But... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Was it Winston Churchill | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No. It was George Bernard Shaw | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Here we go again | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| diverse readers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Excellent reply | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| worth a +1 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Abbreviations | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Compression | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| OICU812 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Non-english speakers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That's what I'd have thought... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Phonetic language | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| re: phonetic language | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| "Indian" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Indian Languages | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| errmm | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No need to apologize | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Indians | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Speaking phonetically | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Hmmm...... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| My apologies | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| shires | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Re: shires | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| shires | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Hmmm | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| :-) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Its about time | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not so ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| 4 thooz liveeng foonetikalee ;-) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You think SMS is bad ..... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What a completely useless thread! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Perhaps not so useless | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| True, but.... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Has the world gone mad? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
typo | 01/01/70 00:00 |