Mercury- the element.? what family does it belong to? origin of the name? cost? discovered by? when? any interesting facts??? need info now for report!!! thanx!!!
Yet even in its spoken form, English is weird. Itâs weird in ways that are easy to miss, especially since Anglophones in the United States and Britain are not exactly rabid to learn other languages. But our monolingual tendency leaves us like the proverbial fish not knowing that it is wet.
Betsy Balcombe too noted Napoleonâs strange way of speaking her language: âThe Emperorâs English, of which he spoke a few words, was the oddest in the worldâ. But this latter embellishment is in the end relatively unimportant.