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<p>[QUOTE="komokwa, post: 341383, member: 301"]copied from Aaroncab....on the help identify thread....</p><p><br /></p><p>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_%28philosophy%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_%28philosophy%29" 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>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="komokwa, post: 341383, member: 301"]copied from Aaroncab....on the help identify thread.... 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_%28philosophy%29']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][/QUOTE]
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