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.
@NiveusLepus Henceforth, the "English" spoke "French" and lo! A language was born! 🤣
Guillaume has much to answer for!