| ▲ | mauvehaus 7 hours ago | |||||||
Fun fact an adder (snake) was once a nadder, and an apron was on a napron. This fun fact brought to you by The History of English Podcast. https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/ Happily sourced in Wikipedia so I don't have to figure out which episode I learned that from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adder <- see below the table in Taxonomy. | ||||||||
| ▲ | adzm 7 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
And cherries were ceries from French, leading to the singular form cherry. Lots of neat little things like this. | ||||||||
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