After more than a century of being the underdog in the Scotland versus England series, England finally gained the upper hand in the mid 1980s and is now 8 games ahead at 49-41. Hopefully, the pendulum will swing back in Scotland’s favour at some time within the next 60 years or so.
Not completely, pork instead of swine, beef instead of cow, mutton instead of sheep and in another direction, the sovereign’s motto is dieu et mon droit and, despite my non Welsh speaking Welsh friend, who fiercely insists that the Prince of Wales’ motto Ich Dien, is Welsh not German. 
Modern English is Franglais. It’s exactly what you got by mixing old English with medieval French
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Yes it’s probably your turn, to be fair.
Well strictly speaking the French-derived words are used for the finished product as eaten by the upper classes, and the Anglo-Saxon-derived words for the living beasts that the peasants had to look after. 
About a third of English words are French in origin, apparently. So yes it seems we Rosbifs are happily Franglaising along here. 
Perhaps if the English Crown’s French possessions had been retained the proportion of French would have been even higher? Apparently the period from 1250 to 1400 was the most prolific for borrowed words from French. Forty percent of all the French words in English appear for the first time between these two dates (Wikipedia).
It seems that the switch to English as the official language happened after that as a result of the ongoing wars with France - it was politically expedient for the Anglo-Norman aristocracy to emphasise their English connections. And no doubt speaking English was more practical as well.
Old English for pig was picga with similar words in the Germanic languages . But isn’t this one of the pairings for which the claim is that we get the modern English word for the meat from French, but the word for the animal from Old English (because the peasants were doing the husbandry and the nobility were eating the meat) - pig/pork, mutton/sheep, beef/cow, venison/deer, veal/calf.
Ah, Chris beat me to it
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I am pleased to note that apparently the written form of English that emerged was based on the Midlands dialects of Old English.
Anyway isn’t it time we were rude about Trump again?
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Is it time to mention Anglish yet, or has someone done it already?
There’s an irony in that the Normans (a northern European, old Norse speaking tribe) picked up and brought over medieval French. Had they brought their own language modern English would have been much more like the Germanic and Scandanavian languages of today (maybe almost completely like Danish perhaps??).
Possibly.
You could argue that it has… 
I did
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I saw, but too late!
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I think he confused it with mini-golf.
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This seems like the most reasonable place to put a post about Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I would have never considered she might actually have a conscience, but it seems possible that she does, at least to a degree. Of course I’m wondering why she might move in the opposite direction to her party, but willing to wait and see what she does further.
She probably thinks the genocide is being done with those darned Jewish space lasers.
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She, like all the bullshitting opportunists, including Trump, are sniffing the wind of change.
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The Meidas Touch Network has more dirt on Trump and Epstein.
And according to the NYT “The MeidasTouch is a leader among the numerous digital-first outlets that have been rapidly reshaping the progressive media landscape since Mr. Trump took office. Tapping into agita among progressives about the new administration’s policies, they are fast becoming power brokers in Democratic politics and — party faithful hope — finally replicating the influential media ecosystem that Republicans have built over the past decade".
It’s called crooked pedophile trumps fascism.
And here’s something from Robert Reich, a former Secretary of Labor , about Trump’s sacking of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he didn’t like the numbers;
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-destroys-our-source-of-information