From an E to an O,

[Chance1234]

Interesting thing on the news this morning (well i thought so ) about how words have changed,

Such as Show, used to be Shew and Post used to be Poste , they said something about rein/reign/reigne as well but can't remember that one!

just wondering if anyone has got any more examples of words that have changed ever so slightly


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[CajunCenturion]

Ye olde candye shoppe"

compleat -> complete

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[sleipnir214]

According to yourdictionary.com, rein and reign come to us from two different Latin words. The etymology of rein is Middle English, from Old French [tt]resne[/tt], [tt]reine[/tt], from Vulgar Latin [tt]*retina[/tt], from Latin [tt]retinere[/tt], to retain. Reign comes to us as Middle English [tt]reigne[/tt], from Old French, from Latin [tt]regnum[/tt], from [tt]rex[/tt], [tt]reg-[/tt], king. But reign did drop a terminal "e" somewhere between here and Middle English.

You can see changes in nouns: some losing letters, some gaining, some seemingly trading one letter for another. A few seem to rearrange letters.

Middle English asshe -> English ash
Old French baril -> M.E. barel -> E. barrel
M.E. ber -> E. beer
M.E. bot -> E.boat
Old English brid -> E. bird
M.E. castel -> E. castle
M.E. clokke -> E. clock
M.E. cou -> E. cow
M.E. croue -> E. crow
M.E. doke -> E. duck
M.E. douve -> E. dove
O.E. duru -> M.E. dor -> E. door
M.E. egle -> E. eagle
M.E. flie (noun -- the insect) -> E. fly
M.E. goos -> E. goose
M.E. hil -> E. hill
M.E. honi -> E. honey
M.E. hauk -> E. hawk
O.E. hors -> E. horse
M.E. moone -> E. moon
M.E. ok -> E. oak
M.E. or -> E. oar
M.E. ote -> E. oat
M.E. partrich -> E. partridge
M.E. pigge -> E. pig
O.F. pijon-> M.E. -> E. pigeon
M.E. rivere -> E. river
M.E. rok -> E. rook
M.E. sparowe -> E. sparrow (looks like we traded an "e" for an "r" with this one)
M.E. sterre -> E. star
O.E. sunne -> M.E. -> E. sun
M.E. tur, tour or towr -> E. tower
M.E. waggin -> E. wagon
M.E. welle -> E. well
M.E. whete -> E. wheat

And some adjectives:
M.E. blak -> E. black
M.E. grene -> E. green
M.E. odde -> E. odd
M.E. swete -> E. sweet
O.E. wyrd -> M.E. werde -> E. weird
M.E. yelow -> E. yellow






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[LTeeple]

sleipnir214:
Have you ever thought of playing Jeopardy? You're a wealth of information! Geez, I wonder if you could even give Ken a run for his (lots of) money!


Cheers!
Laura

 

[lespaul]

Laura,

didn't you hear, they are changing the name of the show - it's now:

The Ken Jennings Show with co-host Alex Trebek


Leslie