Oldest words in English?

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 2/26/09 11:46:42 AM, thnidu at GMAIL.COM writes:


> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:37 AM, <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > But no one has ever claimed that the first humans spoke PIE.
> >
>
> Oh, come on, Ron. Bet you a pie that some journalist has.
>
> Mark Mandel
>

There were a lot of people who thought they spoke Hebrew, and a few who held
out for Dutch. I personally think it was some form of Klingon.


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