vessel - Word History
Date of Origin 13th c.
Latin vascellum meant ‘small dish or utensil’. It was a diminutive form of vas ‘dish, vessel’ (source of English vase). It passed into English via Old French vaissel and Anglo-Norman vessel, on the way acquiring the additional meaning ‘ship’.
And a small world history class (US schools should really put more emphasis on world history before 20th century):
In 1066, William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy (part of modern France), invaded and conquered England. The new conquerors (called the Normans) brought with them a kind of French, which became the language of the Royal Court, and the ruling and business classes. For a period there was a kind of linguistic class division, where the lower classes spoke English and the upper classes spoke French. In the 14th century English became dominant in Britain again, but with many French words added. This language is called Middle English. It was the language of the great poet Chaucer (c1340-1400), but it would still be difficult for native English speakers to understand today.
The amont of english words whose ethymology comes directly from french being about 30 %, and from old french + french 60 %.
So even though english is a germanic language from origin, it contains more french words then anything else :)
vessel - Word History
Date of Origin 13th c.
Latin vascellum meant ‘small dish or utensil’. It was a diminutive form of vas ‘dish, vessel’ (source of English vase). It passed into English via Old French vaissel and Anglo-Norman vessel, on the way acquiring the additional meaning ‘ship’.And a small world history class (US schools should really put more emphasis on world history before 20th century):
In 1066, William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy (part of modern France), invaded and conquered England. The new conquerors (called the Normans) brought with them a kind of French, which became the language of the Royal Court, and the ruling and business classes. For a period there was a kind of linguistic class division, where the lower classes spoke English and the upper classes spoke French. In the 14th century English became dominant in Britain again, but with many French words added. This language is called Middle English. It was the language of the great poet Chaucer (c1340-1400), but it would still be difficult for native English speakers to understand today.The amont of english words whose ethymology comes directly from french being about 30 %, and from old french + french 60 %.
So even though english is a germanic language from origin, it contains more french words then anything else :)
Cgar
You know my last comment was total bullshit right? You should have smelled it coming off your screen. I was joking with you. :wink: :-D
The comments are drifting way off from the original topic and was a humorous attempt to break away and get it back on track.
Buy a couple fighters, save 10 ipc, build navy on round 2, have US send some capitol ships to seazone 8 to protect it, . In any scenario, you should be able to do this.
Building AC + 2 destroyers in SZ8 landing 2 US fighters and adding the US cruiser is usually a nice option if Germany attacked SZ2 and killed the battleship (if not, just building what you would need to survive an air+sub attack and build transports if you have money left. Depending on the German odds of attack on SZ8 you bring or not the US transports, and you may sent the UK transports on Washington’s coast not to lose extra units without reason against likely German attack. Even if Germany as better odds to win on SZ8 (depending on how many planes survived/were built), this strat is nice to lure Germany forces away from Russia and you should always be willing early to trade more UK IPC for a bit less Germany IPC (their “real” value is not the same since Russia/Germany front is ALWAYS the most important front). Also, if Germany had a very good turn 1 and kept all planes, you should be willing to take some risks to try to take the advantage out of axis’ hands.
Also it depends on how Germany places is units, if all planes are in Paris, you can build in SZ2 for exemple.
