Comment by Alan Plum on One word to mean “the proper way of doing things”
@MrHen Maybe something political about Britain and Indians? The word seems to have its origin in Hindi.
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Thanks for the note on 12pm/am. That's unexpected for Germans indeed. I'd err on the side of caution and always refer to midnight as 0:00, as that's what Germans are used to (24:00 would be weird and...
View ArticleComment by Alan Plum on Why do questions convert subjects to the accusative,...
Also, yes, I'm aware the question in Harry Potter is "I'm a what?", which is a simple echo question, but I couldn't think of a better example. But note that it also gets weird if you ask "Who?": "He's...
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I find this answer a bit frustrating as this is clearly not just an English and French thing (though of course other languages could have simply copied this from French) but this is the most convincing...
View ArticleAnswer by Alan Plum for Was what happened to the pronunciation of the word...
I cannot provide a direct answer to your question, but I know a little bit about Old English.The OE word is indeed "cirice". In OE the "c" was pronounced as a "tch" (as in MnE "church") in some cases...
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