It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. - eviltoast
  • bitwaba@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Loanword came into the language around 1860 so it is a claque. If it had been in the vocabulary since old-english then it would just be an evolved version of the German root.