[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Carol's questions for New Steve Was: Tempest in a teapot/cup/kettle

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in a teapot/cup/kettle



But I wonder why the US uses the term buck at all? At the time we were 
building the country and naming animals, we were still English.


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English? Spanish. French. Virtually everyone that could get on a boat and
come here. Plus, don't forget, the natives who had already built here. We
didn't build this country, we conquered it, plundered it (still are) and
purchased other humans to build it. 

But, that aside, English is an adoptive language, very little of it is
"ours." First, it was actually German first, since what is now England was
originally settled by Germanic tribes, which were then combined with the
conquering / settling Anglos and Saxons but didn't emerge as English as we
know it until after the French occupation. So the English language was and
is many languages all put together. 

But, the British where neither the first or the only settlers in the
Americas. 

md