inglicam

Updated: July 25, 2026

Sometimes the talk was in Latin, pronounced by an American scholar as not too bad. A French officer writing in Latin to an American friend announces his intention to learn English: "Inglicam linguam noscere conabor." He made the effort and he and his fellow officers learned a quaint English speech.

George McKinnon Wrong - Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence