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Default So.. what did the Romans do for us? (was lanteen sails)

"Ian Johnston" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:36:49 +0000, Duncan Heenan wrote:

Latin, you were lucky. Why, when I were a lad we had to cope with
Assyrian.......

Assyrian? Assyrian? When I were a lad we had cuneiform tablets and Linear
B - we'd have been grateful for bloody Assyrian.

Ian

Aye! That Rosetta Stone were a right little cracker weren't she!?
I wonder what she's doing nowadays?



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