those odd noises you make
or try to make
could have sounded very different indeed
if
that bill bastard had stayed at (his newish) home
that his grandfather had stolen
in an impure manner
if
later clever clogses
didnt try to make englisc (and themselves) sound more cleverer
by ramming it full of latin and greek terms
about science etc
if
other clever clogseses
hadnt kept dipping into french
to (again) make themselves sound more clevererer
if
other clever clogseseses
hadnt violently rammed the square germanic peg that was englisc
into the round hole of latinate grammar
if
in the last 400 or so years the inhabitants of englisclandia
had kept it in their rather small pants
and not gone off pillaging large parts of the planet
for their goods/people
and most saliently
for their interesting sounding words
if
those things hadnt happened
ðon englisc ðrýð faran âwrîtan lîcian ðês!
(or probably not)
