She lives in Chicago. BY Arika Okrent. Scissors We used to spell scissors sissors or sizars. Island An unnecessary s was bestowed on iland in order to make clearer the link to Latin insula. Ache Ache is from the Old English verb acan. Could In Old English the past tense of can did not have an l in it, but should and would as past tenses of shall and will did. Sovereign When English borrowed soverain from French it had no g.
So, three centuries after the French fixed their word, the English speakers of the world have still not seen fit to correct their original mistake and eliminate the nonsensical letter! This question is in the General Section. Responses must be helpful and on-topic. To join, you must be at least 13 years old and agree to the terms and conditions. General Question. Why does "island" have a silent "s'?
Add Topic questions people. Add Topic 1, questions people. Add Topic questions 27 people. The word reign , however, coming from Latin regnare , did have a g in it, and it very easily made its way into sovereign. Skip to header Skip to main content Skip to footer Feature. Scissors Where did that sc in scissors come from?
Island An unnecessary s was bestowed on iland in order to make clearer the link to Latin insula. Ache Ache is from an Old English verb acan. Could In Old English the past tense of can did not have an l in it, but should and would as past tenses of shall and will did.
Sovereign When English borrowed soverain from French, it had no g. The lost art of being reasonable. Damon Linker. This last Summer the Church of Duckingfield of which Master Eaton and Master Taylor are Pastor and Teacher being met in their Chappell to the performing of their worship and service, as Master Eaton was preaching, there was heard the perfect sound as of a man beating a martch on a drum, and it was heard as coming into the Chappell, and then as going up all along the Ile through the people, and so about the Chappell, but nothing seen, which Master Eaton preaching and the people that sate in the severall parts of the Chappell heard, insomuch that it terrified Master Eaton and the people, caused him to give over preaching, and fall to praying, but the martch still beating, they broke up their exercise for that time, and were glad to be gone.
There is even an isolated occurrence of island in the sense of aisle of a church in the register of the parish of Hart, in County Durham, England: Mr. Or, A new and higher discovery of the errors, heresies, blasphemies, and insolent proceedings of the sectaries of these times London, , by the English Puritan priest Thomas Edwards : This last Summer the Church of Duckingfield of which Master Eaton and Master Taylor are Pastor and Teacher being met in their Chappell to the performing of their worship and service, as Master Eaton was preaching, there was heard the perfect sound as of a man beating a martch on a drum, and it was heard as coming into the Chappell, and then as going up all along the Ile through the people, and so about the Chappell, but nothing seen, which Master Eaton preaching and the people that sate in the severall parts of the Chappell heard, insomuch that it terrified Master Eaton and the people, caused him to give over preaching, and fall to praying, but the martch still beating, they broke up their exercise for that time, and were glad to be gone.
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