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There is a similar reason for why English swear words sound Germanic: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/06/swear-words-etymology-and-the-history-of-englis

• lvkleist 9y ago
  Such an interesting article. Churchill was known to take advantage of this in his speeches, for example in (parts of) the famous "We shall fight them on the beaches": https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/97665/did-the-we-shall-fight-on-the-beaches-speech-mainly-use-words-from-old-english https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/97665/did-the-we... Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. - Winston Churchill