silent monks or something......i think yaks milk was involved.....
Then you'll need to start spelling it correctly: 'trube' as in lube, cube, tube and
I am pretty sure that wort is not German because in German, wort is called Würze.
No, its actually Big Waste of Money.
Sorry, but that's very misleading. Most English words actually have Latin roots. Of course, there are some similarities among Germanic languages, but they actually evolved as separate languages barring the odd invasion. 'Germanic' is a very loose concept for tribes of Northern Europe. Genetically, it's surprising how distinct some Germanic tribes are in reality. The main Germanic influence in Britain appears to be from the Belgae, the first Germanic tribe to colonise the British Isles. Then there were the Saxons. Then Norse refugees fleeing Vikings. The Vikings got there arses kicked mainly and never made much headway inland in Britain beyond hiding on the east coast like girls, but don't tell them that. And, of course, let's not forget the Celts, who got there before the Belgae, some time after the last ice age and continue to laugh at all the angry Germanic invaders.
Old English, which is mainly what you're referring to, in my mind, was a bit limited. Apart from useful swear words, it got replaced mainly.
No, I mean normal English as used today. For example, all the words in bold are Germanic in origin. The bones of English are Germanic.
Reads like you've arrived with a preconceived idea therefore unable to get past what you consider an 'origin' and 'Germanic'. Again, it's a very loose term coughed up for the sake of convenience when offering pretences we know. Me on the hand, I call it bollocks when it's clearly bollocks.
When I say Germanic in origin, I mean "descended from vocabulary in the languages spoken by the people groups we now refer to as Germanic," as opposed to being derived from, say, Latin (or one of Latin's modern descendants). Most of the words we use every day are the ones that come from those old Germanic languages. Pick any passage of (non-academic) English prose, look up the etymology of the words in it, and most of the time, most of the words will be from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family rather than the Italic branch.
Webster's has decided that whatever is on common use is correct. Like they think it's okay to pronounce turmeric "too mur ik", conveniently ignoring the first R.
You do know that linguistics is a rough social 'science' and that comparisons are mainly untestable hypotheses with directionality pretty much impossible to determine, don't you? I just can't help but view as a load of bollocks mainly
