The Americans and English are 2 peoples seperated by a common language
-GB Shaw, often attributed to Churchill here's another..
though the tough cough and hiccough plough him through..;)
Lesse..English is by way of Germanic, Frisian, Angle, Saxon, Norman French, Latin, Danish, Scandanavian, Celtic and Gaelic. What's not to understand?..;) Not to mention our version, with French, Spanish, Yiddish (itself a polyglot language), African, etc..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)