Loaf Warden
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And Icelandic still uses þ and ð. Yet another reason I want to learn Icelandic. If it weren't for the damn Normans, English would probably still have them. I love my language, but my god, we have the most boring version of the Latin alphabet available in the world today. German has ß, French has ç, Spanish has ñ, Portuguese has ã, Norwegian has ø, Danish has å, and most, if not all, of those languages also use umlauts (like ö) or accent marks (like é). Thanks to bloody William the piss-cutting Conqueror, English is the only European language I know of that uses no alternative forms for any of our letters for any reason short of writing words from other languages.
It's like we, English speakers, are the humans on Star Trek, and all the other European languages are the other races. They all have neat-looking additional stuff on their foreheads, or their ears, or their temples. We're the only ones that look bland. We're the only ones that have no features that the others lack. We're original-flavored potato chips, and the other languages have neat flavors like nacho cheese and zesty BBQ and sour cream 'n' onion.
Damn Normans.
It's like we, English speakers, are the humans on Star Trek, and all the other European languages are the other races. They all have neat-looking additional stuff on their foreheads, or their ears, or their temples. We're the only ones that look bland. We're the only ones that have no features that the others lack. We're original-flavored potato chips, and the other languages have neat flavors like nacho cheese and zesty BBQ and sour cream 'n' onion.
Damn Normans.