Did you know that just about every English word that contains the letter combination "sk" is from Old Norse? Skin, sky, ski, skill, skid, skull, skip, skirt etc. Skim isn't though.
Until reading this book I never truly realized what sort of a Frankenlanguage English really is.
https://www.amazon.com/Adventure-English-Biography-Language/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihoYL-dUK1g
Did you know that just about every English word that contains the letter combination "sk" is from Old Norse? Skin, sky, ski, skill, skid, skull, skip, skirt etc. Skim isn't though.
Until reading this book I never truly realized what sort of a Frankenlanguage English really is.