Good morning CoSo.
Random shower thought: there are scathing comments, you can be unscathed, but I've never heard "scathe" in the present tense.
How many other verbs have we dropped a tense from daily use?
@0x56
Non-plussed? 🤔
Dismayed?
Have you ever been plussed, or mayed? 😂
Nonchalant?
I'm not sure what chalant is, but it sounds French.
I've often wondered about non-plussed versus plussed. Gruntled versus disgruntled.
@JanetZumba_FalPals @0x56
Gruntled! That was on the tip of my brain. It sounds bad, but using logic (which is clearly optional) gruntled would be a good thing.
See, that sounds like something a peasant in 1000 a.d. before any Normans came to England, holding a mug of home-brewed cider would say.
I do not know for sure when the normans came to England, but gruntled sounds like old English to me. Like "Yay! I didn't die of plague today! I'm gruntled!"
@janallmac @JanetZumba_FalPals @0x56
The Normans came with the arrival of William the Bastard in 1066.
The battle of Hastings was the decisive moment that ended the Anglo-Saxon era for England that began in the 400s.
@janallmac @JanetZumba_FalPals @0x56
So fun fact with the arrival of William the Bastard, and the Normans came French. The Language of the courts and nobility was French in England for 200 years after, not letting go until the middle of the 1200s.
This is where we get words like beef, cabbage, parliament, champion etc... Those all have French origins.
There are so many more too.
Anything with a Th- (This, Thing etc) comes from the Danelaw, and old Norse as well.
@NiveusLepus
I thought William was a Conquerer, not a Bastard? 🤔 Well, he was probably both. But... literally, or figuratively? 🤔
I did hear about all the different names for animals and the animal in the field vs. on the plate, and how the nobility spoke more French, apparently. I like this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL2vtwdEFaY
He's got an absolutely spectacular face, don't you think?
@janallmac @JanetZumba_FalPals @0x56 He was known as William the Bastard before he was known as William the Conqueror, because he was born of an illegitimate relationship.
He also was not a very nice soul, so it kind of fits him better in my estimation.
@NiveusLepus Oui! Il sont Guillaume le Batard!
His son, William 2nd aka Rufus was well regarded as I understand it.