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In your tent you auntie is waiting for you.Count Steer wrote: Mon Aug 25, 2025 8:18 am Les French aren't averse to this sort of thing either (see ver, vers, vert above).
This is true; Welsh was spoken in London a long time before English existed. And the Welsh-Cornish connection is tangible. And the Gaelic ...Cousin Jack wrote: Sun Aug 24, 2025 6:18 pm English is well known fir adopting foreign words. I suspect it is why we have so many words, far more tha many languages. Sometimes we stick with more of less the original sound, sometimes we translate it into English sounds (tall boy for haute bois).
French can be the worse for this I can think of the.word "crepe" which if feminine is the good old pancake but when masculine refers to a mourning veil. This caught out some Yankee guy who thought he knew french when I was at a funeral in France as he referred to the lady with the pancake on her head. Bit of a tough language to get right.
Try above and below in French -Count Steer wrote: Sun Aug 24, 2025 7:02 pmIt gets worse...an hautboy is an oboe and an hautbois a sort of strawberry and a tallboy isn't just a chest of drawers, it's a long stemmed glass or a chimney extension for a smoky chimney.Cousin Jack wrote: Sun Aug 24, 2025 6:18 pmEnglish is well known fir adopting foreign words. I suspect it is why we have so many words, far more tha many languages. Sometimes we stick with more of less the original sound, sometimes we translate it into English sounds (tall boy for haute bois).Count Steer wrote: Sun Aug 24, 2025 2:41 pm Blame the Greeks and the Romans for most of it. Blame the Indians for lots of adopted words from bungalow (house in the style of Bengal) to chutney and beyond. Lots of words of similar origins shared with the French - it was, much to the dismay of some no doubt, the language of court before we got a German royal family.
The differences are interesting too (if that sort of thing interests you) - Welsh and French for window are almost the same but we got window from Old Norse vindauga, literally 'wind eye' - so, obvs, pre-glazing 'cos it's where the wind got in. We'd probably call it a 'light eye' now.
PS Lots of people 'know' the Welsh for microwave - 'popty ping' but it's really, officially, 'meicrodon'.