16-12-2020, 12:32 AM
(16-12-2020, 12:18 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
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I've been reading a bit about the origin of AEIOU and I must say the possible explanations, even those offered by Frederick's contemporaries, feel like backronyms. ..
That's how they feel to me too.
But... if the king had heard the a.e.i.o.u. song, which was apparently popular at the time, maybe he adapted it as his own.

