Amo, amas, amat.....

There's been much discussion lately about the value, or otherwise, of learning Latin. I took Latin and Greek at school and can't really say they've been of much use to me, except perhaps in giving me a better understanding of my own language. For example, as the 1990's came to an end I got a lot of street cred for being unhesitatingly able to spell millennium. Simple when you know it comes from the Latin "mille" (thousand) and "annum" (year), and then you have no problem knowing that it has two l's and two n's. As my Gran used to say "No knowledge is ever wasted".