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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
...The device with Latin inscription is the Order of the Garter ...
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A sort of French ... if may, Jim
. As the legend that, (according to the most popular version), originates in an event occurred in 1347 in a court ball in Calais. Supposedly the motto was written in Anglo Norman, a dialect of Old Norman French, spoken in a period by the English ruling class.
But you know all that, of course
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