[Buddha-l] the true authority on meanings

[Christopher Fynn]

Vera, Pedro L. wrote:

> I blame all the vagaries of English spelling on the fact that the barbarian hordes of Anglos, Saxons and Jutes that overcame the rightfully Roman province of Britannia could not spell worth a dang! Had the Romans prevailed against the barbarians, we would have had some Romance version of English (or Ingles),  I suppose, will full-phonetic spelling.

Without the Romans and all the later hordes we might have ended up with 
something like Welsh - which looks even more difficult to spell.