Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind

Posted Jul 30, 2022 21:55 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind by nix
Parent article: Nethercote: Twenty years of Valgrind

> The long a thing wasn't acquired during Frenchification -- it was part of the dialect common in particular parts of the south-east much much *later* than Frenchification (like, 600 years later).

600 years? "Modern English" is only 600 years old ... are you thinking of Normanisation?

I'm thinking of Frenchification - probably during the (late?) Georgian period - when it was fashionable for the nobility to speak French and write their English with French spellings ...

Cheers,
Wol