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For a second I read liches, and was puzzled that they existed.
by rhaps0dy 2y ago
For a second I read liches, and was puzzled that they existed.
- solardev 2y agoMe too, especially today!
- acheron 2y agoSemi-related, the Old English word for cemetery was "licburg": corpse-town. The lic- in that is the source of "lich".
- AStonesThrow 2y agoBy contrast, etymology for "lichen" has nothing to do with corpses, apparently: Borrowed from Latin līchēn, from Ancient Greek λειχήν (leikhḗn), from λείχω (leíkhō, “to lick”). Which, I must presume, is derived from the behaviours of animals which eat the stuff, licking it off rocks.
- ksymph 2y agoOff topic: it's always been strange to me that "lich" isn't pronounced like "like" like in "lichen". Even after hearing the 'correct' pronunciation plenty of times I still usually hear it 'like' in my head.
- hatthew 2y agofirst time I read it I mentally pronounced it kinda like loch with an i