Mother Tongue

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

That's true! I bet English was the original language before God confused the languages at Babylon!

There is/was an eccentric on another Christian site that actually believed that!

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

I thought maybe that was a common usage in maybe an academic setting or whatever, but can't fund support for that.

It seems that that the blogger to whom rogue06 resorted as an academic source is confused - the word he was seeking is grapheme.

However, that blogger's knowledge of history leaves a great deal to be desired.

Here is his entry on Anglo Saxon England:

Many Anglo Saxon Kings contributed to the spread and learning of English from Latin. The Viking Invasion in the north of England led to the people being oppressed. The Sons of Edward the Elder, an Anglo Saxon King of the 7th and 8th Century fought the Vikings and stopped their invasion. They were known as Athelstan, Eadred, and Edmund I. One of the sisters of Edward the Elder married Aethelred, a Viking King who died leaving his wife a widow who then took over the Kingdom of Mercia. She was known as the ‘Lady of the Mercians’.

She was powerful and resorted to the Anglo Saxon clan, she encouraged her brother Edward the Elder to recapture Essex which he did in 913. After him, his son Edgar took over the kingdom. His coronation was a huge affair and a celebrated controversy.

That is almost worthy of Sellar and Yeatman [1066 And All That] but not as funny!

[rogue06]

There is/was an eccentric on another Christian site that actually believed that!

Nouveau? I figure it might have been him considering some of his other interesting claims.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Nouveau? I figure it might have been him considering some of his other interesting claims.

No.