"Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue"</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content=""Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue""> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content=""Our,Magnificent,Bastard,Tongue""> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">16-10-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>"Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue"</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Ohio, USA (Blogcritics): The Introduction of Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue traces “three main rounds” of European invasions that led from Old English to Modern English. It began with the Danish and Norwegian Viking invasions (787 A.D. onward), Norman French invasions and the 100 years English-French war bringing Latin with it (remember that Latin was the language of the literate of medieval France). McWhorter is about unearthing the very old roots of English. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/10/11/173635.php " target="blank">blogcritics.org/archives/2008/10/11/173635.php </a> <br> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show