The "What I learned today" thread

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Flanno7hi wrote: ShayGivensBum wrote: Now im confused. Am I right or what?   Ya you are right SGB. There are almost no exceptions except words used in English that are directly taken from another (usually middle eastern) language and Qwerty which is a very modern invention.

love to be pedantic here, but every word in English comes from another language, like most modern languages. The reason English is such a great language is it's diversity, taking words from anglo saxon and latin , including using suffixes from bot linguistic backgrounds to create very different words. Think horrid, horrible, horrific for example as well as picking up words from all the countries they have raped and pillaged from sshenanigans to pyjamas. Also, as far as I can recall, many of the questions (I believe originally spelt qwestion) such as whixh and what were written as qhich qhat. They probably evolved to fit that rule of thumb, rather than the other way around

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pre Madonna wrote: Flanno7hi wrote: ShayGivensBum wrote: Now im confused. Am I right or what?   Ya you are right SGB. There are almost no exceptions except words used in English that are directly taken from another (usually middle eastern) language and Qwerty which is a very modern invention. love to be pedantic here, but every word in English comes from another language, like most modern languages. The reason English is such a great language is it's diversity, taking words from anglo saxon and latin , including using suffixes from bot linguistic backgrounds to create very different words. Think horrid, horrible, horrific for example as well as picking up words from all the countries they have raped and pillaged from sshenanigans to pyjamas. Also, as far as I can recall, many of the questions (I believe originally spelt qwestion) such as whixh and what were written as qhich qhat. They probably evolved to fit that rule of thumb, rather than the other way around

Flanno7hi wrote: pre Madonna wrote: Flanno7hi wrote: ShayGivensBum wrote: Now im confused. Am I right or what?   Ya you are right SGB. There are almost no exceptions except words used in English that are directly taken from another (usually middle eastern) language and Qwerty which is a very modern invention. love to be pedantic here, but every word in English comes from another language, like most modern languages. The reason English is such a great language is it's diversity, taking words from anglo saxon and latin , including using suffixes from bot linguistic backgrounds to create very different words. Think horrid, horrible, horrific for example as well as picking up words from all the countries they have raped and pillaged from sshenanigans to pyjamas. Also, as far as I can recall, many of the questions (I believe originally spelt qwestion) such as whixh and what were written as qhich qhat. They probably evolved to fit that rule of thumb, rather than the other way around   I understand language evolves, I guess it depends on when one believes a word becomes an "English word". Like the word burqa is obviously a well understood word in English but is it an English word like pineapple? (I know it can also be spelt burka).     You might like these maps CB http://imgur.com/a/iVK8a

Excellent work Flanno

I would also argue about pineapple being a truly 'English ' word. Pineapples first entered European vocabulary from Colombus on return from America. He called them Pina de Indes , or pine cone of the indies.
I just Googled, it appears pine cones were referred to as pineapples prior to the fruit, which was originally called ananas in English too. It is quite an interesting word.

pre Madonna wrote:   .... it appears pine cones were referred to as pineapples prior to the fruit, which was originally called ananas in English too. It is quite an interesting word.

I before E except after C. Nonsense. Weird is one example.

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