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Maybe the GP is also insinuating that Google is full of reptilians?

• fmajid 3y ago
  No, just a native French speaker, where the root word is "subreptice".
  • dsr_ 3y ago
    In the time honored way of English, we stole it from you and changed the spelling to match our crummy pronunciation.
    • fmajid 3y ago
      Well, it happened sometime after 1652: https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/surreptitiously https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/surreptitiously
      • dsr_ 3y ago
        Also in the time-honored way of English, we didn't really standardize spelling for another 200 years. Then we started being really pedantic.
        • fmajid 3y ago
          And (Norman) French was the official legal language of England from 1066 to 1362, at a time it wasn't even the official language of France itself (that only happened in 1539 with the ordinance of Villers-Cotteret replacing Latin in legal documents). To this day some ceremonials of Parliament like the King's Assent to promulgate legislation are still in Norman French.