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Words "creeping into English" is like what the entire language is all about. If you take away the words brought in by immigrants and invaders there is very lit
by colechristensen 2y ago
Words "creeping into English" is like what the entire language is all about.
If you take away the words brought in by immigrants and invaders there is very little recognizable left.
>I'm not exactly worrying about "Haus" creeping into English to replace "House"
It's literally already the same word, we just spell it "wrong", likely out of French/Norman influence.
- normie3000 2y ago> we just spell it "wrong", likely out of French/Norman influence Could it be that we spell it differently because the word was adopted before spelling was standardised in either language?
- thoroughburro 2y ago> If you take away the words brought in by immigrants and invaders there is very little recognizable left. This is not true at all. Most of the core vocabulary is derived from Old English. We’ve borrowed a ton of vocabulary to expand new concepts, but the core has remained relatively stable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Old_English_origin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Old...