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<p>[QUOTE="aaroncab, post: 341368, member: 3974"]Copied from the Wikipedia links:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense</a></p><p><br /></p><p>...<i><b>Honi soit qui mal y pense</b></i> is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language" rel="nofollow">Anglo-Norman</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_(philosophy)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_(philosophy)" rel="nofollow">maxim</a> used as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motto" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motto" rel="nofollow">motto</a> of the British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivalric_order" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivalric_order" rel="nofollow">chivalric</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" rel="nofollow">Order of the Garter</a>. It is translated as "May he be shamed who thinks badly of it"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense#cite_note-OED-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense#cite_note-OED-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> or "Shame be to him who thinks evil of it"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The <b>Order of the Garter</b>(formally the <b>Most Noble Order of the Garter</b>) is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_chivalry" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_chivalry" rel="nofollow">order of chivalry</a>founded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III" rel="nofollow">Edward III</a> in 1348 and regarded as the most prestigious British order of chivalry (though in precedence inferior to the military <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross" rel="nofollow">Victoria Cross</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cross" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cross" rel="nofollow">George Cross</a>) in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_and_Wales" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_and_Wales" rel="nofollow">England</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" rel="nofollow">United Kingdom</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to what exactly it's function is...I'm not sure. How big is it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="aaroncab, post: 341368, member: 3974"]Copied from the Wikipedia links: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense[/URL] ...[I][B]Honi soit qui mal y pense[/B][/I] is an [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language']Anglo-Norman[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_(philosophy)']maxim[/URL] used as the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motto']motto[/URL] of the British [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivalric_order']chivalric[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter']Order of the Garter[/URL]. It is translated as "May he be shamed who thinks badly of it"[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense#cite_note-OED-1'][1][/URL] or "Shame be to him who thinks evil of it"[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense#cite_note-2'][2][/URL] [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter[/URL] The [B]Order of the Garter[/B](formally the [B]Most Noble Order of the Garter[/B]) is an [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_chivalry']order of chivalry[/URL]founded by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III']Edward III[/URL] in 1348 and regarded as the most prestigious British order of chivalry (though in precedence inferior to the military [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross']Victoria Cross[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cross']George Cross[/URL]) in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_and_Wales']England[/URL] and the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom']United Kingdom[/URL]. As to what exactly it's function is...I'm not sure. How big is it?[/QUOTE]
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