http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/ ?a Engliscan Gesi?as Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:55:21 GMT Anne Gilbert http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1110 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1110 ber123 It's nice, I guess, that the Anglo-Saxons were so long-lived. . . . (lol!) Anne G Was anybody else watching the BBC News Channel item this morning on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:14:47 GMT ber123ice http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1109 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1109 As a teacher these mistakes just make me weep. Of course, anybody can mistype, but it's the fact that nobody who should be more with it is actually doing the Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:30:37 GMT Margaret http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1108 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1108 Misinformation AND disinformation. Especially about anything to do with England or the Englisc. Any schoolchild of my generation would have hooted with Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:05:43 GMT Paul Finlow-Bates http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1107 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1107 The BBC basically adopt a policy of general ignorance as a staff requirement.   A few weeks back the Breakfast news crowd did an item on inventions, one of Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:13:16 GMT Hazel Uzzell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1106 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1106 There are countless typos in the strap lines....some of them quite funny. I do agree that in an ideal world they shouldn't happen! Then of course there are the Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:10:18 GMT Sonyaporter@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1105 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1105 ... the BBC is really an anti-BBC and anyway many of the people running it are either too young to have a good grasp of history or have been taught by a Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:31:11 GMT ber123ice http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1104 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1104 Was anybody else watching the BBC News Channel item this morning on the Anglo-Saxon Hoard? I've written in! Didn't realise before that the Anglo-Saxons were Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:20:39 GMT cantwara http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1103 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1103 Site devoted to next year's 1600th anniversary commemoration of the end of Roman Rule in Britannia http://www.410.org.uk Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:04:53 GMT Anne Gilbert http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1102 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1102 Sonya: While I can understand your dilemma here, I'm not sure letting somebody get away with such egregious ignorance, even at a dinner party given by someone Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:55:51 GMT Sonyaporter@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1101 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1101 ... party and I quite like the friend who gave it! On the other hand, keeping it all inside makes it all grow and by yesterday I was ready to explode. I Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:44:55 GMT Anne Gilbert http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1100 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1100 Margaret: What on earth would "an 11th century drill sergeant" have sounded like? It sounds like that would have been interesting to watch, but I agree with Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:41:15 GMT Anne Gilbert http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1099 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1099 Margaret: From what I've read, I can kind of understand how the people at Battle Abbey could come up with a "placard that says '1066 -- the start of our Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:34:00 GMT Anne Gilbert http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1098 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1098 Sonya: All I can say is, such profound ignorance is hard to believe! Where did he ever get the idea that AS people lived in "holes in the ground"???? And Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:26:37 GMT Margaret http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1097 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1097 This just shows what we're up against. Going into Battle Abbey yesterday, at the front there's a placard which says '1066 - the start of Britain's story'. The Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:41:53 GMT Margaret http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1096 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tha_engliscan_gesithas/message/1096 I was determined to make it to the Commemoration ceremony at the Haroldstone yesterday. Last year couldn't go because Barry was so ill and in hospital, this