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Thread: How come Auba speaks Portuguese? re:Arseblog and Martinelli.

  1. #21
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    I thought the Vikings invaded and founded Dublin long before that.
    I was speaking tongue-firmly-in-cheek A
    I was always taught in school that any place name ending in FORD in basically Nog and there is a many here.
    Funnily enough Junior and I were watching the game on Tuesday with an Arabic commentary and he commented (as a non-Spanish speaker) how Spanish it sounded to him.The Moorish influence on Spanish i would assume?

  2. #22
    Quote Originally Posted by TheCurly View Post
    I was speaking tongue-firmly-in-cheek A
    I was always taught in school that any place name ending in FORD in basically Nog and there is a many here.
    Funnily enough Junior and I were watching the game on Tuesday with an Arabic commentary and he commented (as a non-Spanish speaker) how Spanish it sounded to him.The Moorish influence on Spanish i would assume?
    Nah, here in unconquered Wessex we have loads of -fords. Why, the other day I was in Greenford and Brentford.

    It's Frisian, as it turns out, so Auld English.

  3. #23
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    Nah, here in unconquered Wessex we have loads of -fords. Why, the other day I was in Greenford and Brentford.

    It's Frisian, as it turns out, so Auld English.
    Well one considers oneself told and no mistake

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