Who'd have friggin' guessed?

[Lester Curtis]

(Shamelessly stolen from this morning's RefDesk page)

Frigg
One of the most important goddesses of Norse mythology and Germanic religion, Frigg is the patron of marriage, fertility, and the household. Though many stories depict her as a devoted mother, others stress her loose morals. Due to her resemblance to the Roman goddess Venus, the Latin day of Venus came to be known as Frigg's day—or Friday—in Germanic countries.

[Lester Curtis]

English is a Germanic language!

Yeah . . . but if the English language was a dog with a litter of pups, each of hem would have a different father.

[Lester Curtis]

I remember having a lovely online argument with some nutjob who wanted the UK to ban immigration and "keep England for the English!" So I asked him if he meant the celts, who drove out the picts, or the Italians and French who came over with Caesar and stayed behind when the legions left, or the Germans who blew in from Saxony with Vortigern in the fifth century, or the Danes who hung around to collect their annual DaneGeld, (or just picked a bit of land they liked when "viking," although that mostly happened in Scotland, rather than England), or the Norman French who came over in 1066, or...

He never came back. The joys of having as a father a man with degrees in teaching, history and english...

Iain, you should go over to Daily Writing Tips (dot com) and beat up on that stuffed shirt who wastes too much of their page in the comments most days.