Lyn David Thomas wrote:
> On 18 May 2006 15:46:58 -0700
> "J=F6rg" wrote:
>
> > OTOH, wasn=B4t it a Cornwall delegate who made the decisive vote that in
> > parliament English should be the language of lower eductation instead
> > of (Norman) French? IIRC, he expected that Cornish would prevail vs.
> > Englich (in Cornwall), while it might just be pushed aside by the
> > vastly more useful Lingua Franca French? Or is this a close cousin of
> > the other Urban Legend about German almost becoming th laguage of the
> > US?
>
>
> No I believe this to be, in essence, correct.
Could you give us more details of this vote?
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