Comment on Non-native english speaker here. Need help with my work emails

s_s@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  …fuuuuuuuck.

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  • lugal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait until you find out that a nickname used to be an ickname

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    • LemmysMum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Some of them still are.

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  • s_s@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Napkin and Napron comes from the same french word, which means " small cloth"

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• thurmite@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also “a norange” > “an orange” (in Spanish it’s “naranja”)

  And it went backwards with napkin. “An apkin” > “a napkin”

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  • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, but no. It was never a norange in english. English directly adopted the word orange from french, so that’s the no, but yes, it was the word naranja from spanish, who took it from arab, and arancia from italian, and maybe from the word gold in french, which is “or”.

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    • thurmite@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve never been so delighted to be wrong. Thank you—that’s fascinating.

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  • LemmysMum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    100 years we might switch back again…

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    • thurmite@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’ll always be the dream…

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• MrBobs@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unbelievable, I find this kind of thing so fascinating. Thanks for posting.

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• I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As a child I rebracketed two words until I was corrected by spell check as a teen- A stigmatism and an acompilation (complied collection of music or stories).

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  • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Me too, that seems like a weirdly specific thing for two people on Lemmy to do.

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    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Rebracketing buddies! 🤜

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also, “an uncle” used to be “a nuncle.”

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