Yes, but the English always blame the French. It's handy to have someone to blame. I blame William the Conqueror's father

Words like this can be 'false friends' across languages, too. French inhabité, if I'm not mistaken, doesn't mean inhabited. It means uninhabited.

I blame the French ...

Andrew

I've heard the same argument used about cholesterol ... No, I'd say, your logic doesn't quite work, Brazilian dude. It depends how many of those Greek words, borrowed into Latin, actually remained in the Romance languages. Not so very many -- some food and plant names, some Christian words -- Settin...