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When reading old English stories I always wondered what “grippe” was.

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When reading old English stories I always wondered what “grippe” was. It’s the French word for influenza?
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Related, I remember coming hard up against “gaol” (“ga.. owl?”) and didn’t realize for the longest time it was just an alternate spelling of “jail”
https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2016/05/jail-gaol-and-prison.html
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