# Who's the father ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-father/692790>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 10, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-father/692790 "2014-07-10T20:42:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-father/692790/41 "2014-07-13T05:45:24Z")

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That’s what I was going to say, Siam Sam. We can speculate all we want but won’t know for sure until the DNA results are back. My money’s on Senegal.

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**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-father/692790/42 "2014-07-13T16:59:32Z")

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> [@common\_good](#):
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> This is the correct answer. France was the midwife. The founding fathers were well-schooled in the classics. Washington considered himself a modern Cincinnatus, which, indeed he was, and our laws, though based upon English common law, were heavily influenced by Roman History and representative governance, as was Latin used in medicine, also. Ancient Rome was America’s father, to the extent parentage can be conferred to the US. Greece may have fooled around with lady liberty, earlier on, too. But there was no National Enquirer or NY Post then, so we’ll never really know.

Cool, I win! _pumps fist, puts on laurel wreath_

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**Author:** ![common\_good](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@common\_good](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/common_good)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-father/692790/43 "2014-07-15T17:55:23Z")

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> [@simster](#):
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> “Correct Answer” ???
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> There is no “correct answer”.

No kidding.

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**Author:** ![common\_good](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@common\_good](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/common_good)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-father/692790/44 "2014-07-15T17:56:54Z")

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> [@Hector\_St\_Clare](#):
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> Sort of. English is a Germanic language with tons of French & Latin influence.

Yea, English is a Germanic language. But 60% of the words are based in Latin.

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