Language change is so fascinating. I recently read a comment about how Latin (book Latin) may owe a large part of it's historical steadiness, and in some part then it's usefulness, to the fact that it wasn't a 'living' language undergoing all of these changes. It was (and perhaps still is to some extent) outside of linguistic time.
Great etymology deep dive! I've always wondered about Christ/messiah but for some reason never looked it up 😅 Happy Little Christmas Eve as we say on the 23rd in southern Scandinavia!
Fascinating! Could you explain why the final /a/ in Latin "missa" becomes an /e/ in Kentish Old English, and subsequently, in West Saxon Old English? Iċ þancie þē!
Language change is so fascinating. I recently read a comment about how Latin (book Latin) may owe a large part of it's historical steadiness, and in some part then it's usefulness, to the fact that it wasn't a 'living' language undergoing all of these changes. It was (and perhaps still is to some extent) outside of linguistic time.
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I was always confused as to why we pronounce “Christmas” with a monophthong but “Christ” with a diphthong.
The same reason that we pronounce "sphere" as /ˈsfɪɚ/ but "spherical" as /ˈsfɛɹɪkəl/, I'd imagine.
Great etymology deep dive! I've always wondered about Christ/messiah but for some reason never looked it up 😅 Happy Little Christmas Eve as we say on the 23rd in southern Scandinavia!
Fascinating! Could you explain why the final /a/ in Latin "missa" becomes an /e/ in Kentish Old English, and subsequently, in West Saxon Old English? Iċ þancie þē!
I can read the last sentence, and I only watched the video on the first chapter of his textbook! I'm so chuffed
Love this kinda stuff, thank you!!!
Merry Christmas!
Simon Roper sent me. or should I say, Roperum Simonus missa me. LOL. Just guessing here with my new found etymology.
איך האָב זײער ליב געהאַט אַז דו האָסט געניצט דעם אַשכּנזישן אַרױסרײד. ש'כּוח!
Thank you for all this wonderful information! BLITHE GEOLA!
Is that Anglo Saxon for Merry Christmas???
So you never really told us how to say “Merry Christmas” in Anglo Saxon..!!!
Old English looks and sounds quite a bit like Latin tbh.
As related languages go back in time they tend to resemble each other more
this is due to protoindoeurpeanization
Wow, what a handsome you are! ❤ cute! also the beard.
You didn't pronounce Christmas differently at the end, dislike dislike dislike.
First!!!!!!!