In honor of my new carpet, and my resurrected computer network, I reinitiate (semi) serious blogging with another bit of forgotten WW II history, in the next post. This one was discovered by guest blogger Jim Bennett, while researching old Rooters press clippings in preparation for his upcoming book, "The Anglosphere: Man, Myth, Or Just An Unnatural Marriage of Linguistics and Geometry?"

Worse yet, the linguistic-geometric convergence seems to have been pioneered by -- the French! The first use of "Anglosphere" in English (so far as I know) was by Neal Stephenson in "The Diamond Age". But "Francosphere" appears in a French-language Website prior to Diamond Age's publication.