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From: "Michael Kuettner" <>
Subject: Re: History Syllabi (Was: Plantagenet Correct Usage?)
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 19:27:40 +0200
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Kathy McIntosh <> wrote in message
news:QIA6eKArKlP7Ew+d@knotland.demon.co.uk...
> In article <>, Brian M. Scott
> <> writes
> >On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:38:26 +0100, Kathy McIntosh
> ><> wrote:
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >>One of my pupils once wrote a beautiful paragraph [a great effort
for
> >>him, as he was very Special Needs] all about the Duck of Monmouth.
> >
> >And why not? One 16th c. copy of Walford's Roll (late 13th c.) tells
> >us that 'Le duck de Ostrich' bore 'gules a fese argent', while 'Le
> >duck de Lorangne' bore 'or une bende gules a treys eigles argent sur
> >le bende'. (In case the spellings are *too* obscure, those are
> >Austria and Lorraine.)
> >
> LOL. Got Lorraine, but Ostrich would have stumped me.
> The spelling is very like poor old Matty's - except he was trying for
> standard English.
Earlier it was 'Ostarrichi' (976), later Ostrich, now Oesterreich.

Although foreigners also call it Australia.

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner



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