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misspelled-url · 1 month ago

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not to put French on everyone's dash today but tell me how i only just found out that RSVP stands for "répondez s'il vous plaît" ("please respond", with the formal 2nd person)? i always underestimate how MUCH French is present in English when it comes to more formal contexts...

#shout-out to lil old Bill the conqueror and all his descendants I guess?#wait was William the Conquerer originally called “Guillaume”??#brb gotta go down another rabbit hole #languages #tw french #OKAY UPDATE #not only WAS he called 'Guillaume le Conqu��rant' ✨ but he was also sometimes called 'William the Bastard'#amazing #Bill mate i've underestimated how interesting you might be #clearly i should've done more additional reading on my own when I learned about the Anglo-Saxon period in my degree #well. i guess i gotta read someone's Wikipedia page now i guess. i heard you were a dickhead William; let's find out how true that is

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