Re: maintenance of overriding subprograms

["John G. Volan" <johnv@ac3i.dseg.ti.com>]

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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> 
> Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> >
> > This thread is based on initialise/initialize.
> > I have real trouble with colour/color (I mean, English is French based,
> > not Spanish based, right? (:-) (:-)).
> 
> No, English is based on a whole string of invasions, and the Norman
> Conquest was only the most recent. 

The most recent invasion _into_ Great Britain perhaps, but surely not
the most recent _invasion_ to have influenced the English language.  One
must consider also the invasions of English _from_ Great Britain to
other parts of the globe.  For instance, from its invasion of North
America, English has gained Amerindian words such as "okay", "squash",
"potato", "tomato", "maize", "chocolate", etc.  Then there are words
borrowed from the original Indians, due to Britain�s invasion of their
subcontinent, words such as: "khaki", "nabob", "pundit", "thug", etc.

Then there is the more recent invasion of Britain into North American,
for which we can thank such worthy additions as "groovy", "fab", and
"beatlemania". :-)

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