#because the last thing i read was from 1607 😊 and just expect his readers to catch on

[hexjulia]

logging back in here specifically to say i was to unable to sleep until this T.H. White The Goshawk paragraph stopped confusing me.

Is this a joke? Is a frenchman a type of english animal? Did he kill an actual french man on an out of season holiday during wwi while the uk was allied with france and feed him to his deeply irritable goshawk? Do frenchmen have seasons?

anyway after a long while of google refusing to grant me insight i remembered about wiktionary and that's when i finally found out that's what british people call this very normal bird not allied with anyone and he didn't shoot and eat any french citizens with his bird after all (as far as we know)

thank you wiktionary.