the funniest manifestation of this is how people treat synonyms with different etymologies
if you wanna sound like a smartypants, you go for the word we got from the normans, instead of from the saxons

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the funniest manifestation of this is how people treat synonyms with different etymologies
if you wanna sound like a smartypants, you go for the word we got from the normans, instead of from the saxons
i remember the first apartment building i lived in in Montreal had a "live-in concierge", by which they meant the janitor lived in the basement
Pretty much every language does that to every other language it comes in contact with.
i always blame this on william the bastard of normandy deciding he wants to be king of england and altering the course of history forever