Is it Champion - chip, or is it Champion - ship?

[Mental Trousers]

Like vice verse?

Like verse vs versus

[HenryDorsetCase]

I had to come over a bridge over the Heathcote River today. Its pronounced "hethhhh kit" round these parts. Not heAth coat.

Also, I followed one of those silly big SUV's today (in my far smaller and less impressive SUV) and it had one of those spare wheel covers on it. Emblazoned thereon was the word "Bugger". That is quite odd. Does it show the owner's predilection for anal sex? Are they a pitcher or a catcher? So at the traffic lights I got out and wrote "Me please - I will pay $10" underneath it. for clarity of course. Clarity in communication is key, one finds.

[Ocean1]

I had to come over a bridge over the Heathcote River today.

English place names are immune from correct pronunciation.

I mean, how can you take the sound of Worcestershire seriously in it’s native tongue let alone those of barbarous colonial heathens.

[neels]

Also, I followed one of those silly big SUV's today (in my far smaller and less impressive SUV) and it had one of those spare wheel covers on it. Emblazoned thereon was the word "Bugger". That is quite odd. Does it show the owner's predilection for anal sex? Are they a pitcher or a catcher? So at the traffic lights I got out and wrote "Me please - I will pay $10" underneath it. for clarity of course. Clarity in communication is key, one finds.

And yet you too neglected to specify whether you wished to be pitcher or catcher. Clarity in communication is indeed key.

[wayne]

in wsbk its champion (chip) pata

[ellipsis]

...666........

[avgas]

Hardly surprising, given that the language in your (perhaps too large) graphic is Latin.
Raptus regaliter.

Really?
So not Teutonic?

English has borrowed elements overtime from French, Itallian and Spannish, but rarely Latin.........also the core is fundamentally different. English is closer to Dutch and Nordic Languages than Spanish or French or Latin for a reason.

The Latin alphabet was adopted as a tool to make written text easier. Teutonic was not formed using the same characters. So what they did was implement sounds the Latin letters formed to create written english as we see it now. In fact this is where the term English came from.

Northern languages were not the only ones to do this. 1000 years later - Chinese adopted the same process and formed the written language Piying, Japan did similar with Katakana (sp?).
Note that this process was not called "Latinization" but "Romanization" because even the Romans changed Latin from its original core.

Referencing English to Latin is like referencing trees to amoeba.........if I plant an Amoeba I doubt I would grow a tree. Likewise if I cut open a tree, I doubt I would find the Amoeba that started it. The two are so disconnected that it does make sense.

I have no even touched on the origins in Sanskrit, which affected English the most, more so than Latin did. Which is why we write words in lower case, and have punctuation. It is also the reason why the same word can be used in multiple context an change the meaning. Unlike latin where there are multiple words for same thing in different contexts.

So keep believing the world is based on latin, and we only had 1 language 2,000 years ago.

[HenryDorsetCase]

And yet you too neglected to specify whether you wished to be pitcher or catcher. Clarity in communication is indeed key.

I'm good with either, as you know

[pritch]

So not Teutonic?

My guess is not, since it was most likely written by a monk, and since the Ghurch of England was centuries away it was probably done under the auspices of the church of Rome.

One thing though: what was the original Roman language? Trojan?