So who did BA outsource their IT to?

[Fronttoback]

65% Germanic. 25% Latin.

What's the other 10% out of interest?

[DaveB]

What's the other 10% out of interest?

[northernladyuk]

What's the other 10% out of interest?

Probably mostly Greek technical words (telephone, physics, democracy etc.)

[Pip in a Poke]

Up next for my Kindle:

Bill Bryson - Mother Tongue

[northernladyuk]

Up next for my Kindle:

Bill Bryson - Mother Tongue

It's a nice book.

[Pip in a Poke]

It's a nice book.

Yes, just read The Road to Little Dribbling, his follow up to Notes From a Small Island.

Very good read and it's interesting to see how cynical he is here compared to the tone of the original book.

I think he's been here too long.

[Cirrus]

1362 and All That

65% Germanic. 25% Latin.

There's a big difference between the number of distinct words (as in a dictionary) and the frequency of words in actual speech/writing. In normal language use the derivatives of Old English far outweigh Latin/Romance inputs.

I say this of course on the basis that a bloke from our village was the first person to open a parliamentary session in English.

[Cirrus]

Probably mostly Greek technical words (telephone, physics, democracy etc.)

Also Arabic and Urdu/Hindi.

[MrMarkyMark]

Pretty much sums up what a lot of us thought....

Álex Cruz, BA’s chairman and chief executive, said on Monday that the surge was “so strong that it rendered the back-up system ineffective”. But multiple data centre designers have told the Guardian that a power surge should not be able to bring down a data centre, let alone a data centre and its back-up.

https://www.theguardian.com/business...er-surge-claim

[motoukenin]

So to settle the argument on what the thread is called I propose:

"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving"

In fact using Shakespere quotes for all threads would give us our sense of identity back, cold possibly make us sound a bit weird tho.