>Len;
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>I agree with your assessment as I had a Catholic Education and we were required to study Latin and Greek. Say three “Our Fathers”, five “Hail Mary’s”, make a good “Act of Contrition”, and open your book to page 101.

>Latin may be a “dead language” but at last count over 220,000 English words derived from Latin. So Latin lives in one form or another and in its vernacular form we see it as Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian.
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>Tom

I, too, studied Latin & Greek at school - though by choice rather than from Catholic education. My wife has a degree in Latin. My son is required to study Latin for at least three years at school, at the point where my sone has the option of not carrying on with Latin, my daughter will be starting. So, at least for my family, Latin seems to be far from a dead language. Maybe one of the reasons why the abuse of the language is a bit of a bug-bear for me.