[BITList] How English gave birth to surprising new languages

HUGH chakdara at btinternet.com
Sun Aug 14 08:59:56 BST 2016


John,

Norwegian and Danish were spelled the same way until the Norwegians, in the 1920s, changed their spelling of some words by Act of Parliament. They don't sound the same, not even near.

Hugh.
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