Today, like during the renaissance when it could be said that the English language developed the most, there is no shortage of people who comment and have opinions on the development of the English Language. In an essay entitled English our English John Marenbon (1987) talks of the necessity to include Latin in the national curriculum to aid the English student in their study, he also says that any Englishman who does not have a grasp of Latin is "(A) stranger to his own culture" (note the patriarchal ideological inscription in not including females who speak or study English in his comments!). The influence of Latin on the English Language is of course, not to be overlooked, not only do we have words which directly come from Latin such as the Latin Factum which has become the modern day word fact, to use one of many examples, but Latin...