Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mot.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!mot!fred From: fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Re: Old World languages in the New World Message-ID: <470@mot.UUCP> Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 14:53:35 EST Article-I.D.: mot.470 Posted: Wed Dec 4 14:53:35 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 4-Dec-85 20:54:30 EST References: <52200001@hpcnof.UUCP> <721@stc-b.stc.UUCP> Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ 85282 Lines: 15 > This prompted a memory of a conversation which I had had with a Canadian on > a ferry, and I would be grateful if someone could confirm/deny his assertion: > ``The French-Canadians are the Fifth language group in Canada, after > English, Ukranian, German and Norwegian.'' > Regards, > Andrew Macpherson. hmm. i wonder if that's why my parents tell of the good ol' Irish name they came across at school in the '40's: O'Maharechillelinskyorskachorskyiniacakacovitch (sp?) :-) -- << Generic disclaimer >> Fred Christiansen ("Canajun, eh?") @ Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ UUCP: {seismo!terak, trwrb!flkvax, utzoo!mnetor, ihnp4}!mot!fred ARPA: oakhill!mot!fred@ut-sally.ARPA "Families are Forever"