Re: Dialect Continuums

--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> But note that Dunquerque (Duinkerk, Dünkirchen)
> unlike most Northern French towns has its own name in English, a

sure

> sign it was once important.

Conquered from Spain by Cromwell, sold to France by Hyde (later Earl
of Clarendon, and grandfather of Queen Mary II and Queen Anne) and a
nest of privateers during the Napoleonic wars.

Richard.