It was this week in 1066 that William the Conqueror arrived in England looking for a fight.  After defeating the Old-English speaking Saxons mid October of 1066, the English language turned on its ear from being a Germanic tongue to being one also influence by Latin via French.

So it’s thanks to that, that I was able to have a job teaching English in Saxony.  Daddum ching.

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