"Re: [meteorite-list] avoirdupois ?

From: Rosemary Hackney <ltcrose_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:35 2004
Message-ID: <3EE579D4.000001.93611_at_default>

 LOL.. now that you mention William the Conqueror ( he was a granddaddy u=
p
the line ) and so was a King named Olaf ( I think he was Danish) ( prett=
y
much Viking I would say )as well as some of those Louises and those
Plantagenet fellows. Alexander the Great and Ptolemy and a couple of
pharoahs. Now you know why I am so mixed up.. But anywho.. I thought
avoirdupois meant "pound"=0D
or the FPS system as opposed to MKS/cgs (metric )=0D
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Rosie=0D
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From: Sterling K. Webb=0D
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 00:31:01=0D
To: rochette=0D
Cc: meteorite-list=0D
Subject: "Re: [meteorite-list] avoirdupois ?=0D
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Hi, Pierre,=0D
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Of course, Early Middle English is not "just a British expression forged=0D
to look=0D
like French," but French as spoken by the British who were at that time=0D
French, at least the moneyed (and language determining) classes, descenda=
nts=0D
of the French who followed Guillaume de Normandie (whom the British now c=
all=0D
William the Conqueror) to England after he defeated Harold Godwinson for =
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throne, Harold and his army being exhausted from having defeated another=0D
Viking invasion (this time from Norway) just three weeks earlier. I say=0D
"another" Viking invasion because Guillaume and all his French followers
Received on Tue 10 Jun 2003 02:25:24 AM PDT