Fun fact: you know that then where you go back to programming language A after doing a lot of work in B, and accidently use B syntax in A?
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Fun fact: you know that then where you go back to programming language A after doing a lot of work in B, and accidently use B syntax in A?
That's how the English language got the letter "H" in "Ghost".
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@foone did I spot a fellow Words unravelled listener?
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by [email protected]
The word in middle English was "gost", but The Royal Book in 1484 (one of the earliest books printed in English) spelled it "ghoost" in the prologue.
The prologue was written by the German Wynkyn de Worde, who was thinking of Flemish (where the word was "gheest") and merged it with the English "gost", and then it shortened down to "ghost" when the spelling was standardized -
So that "H" is still there in "ghost" because one German guy a half millenia ago tried to write Java using C++ syntax, probably because it was 1am and the candle was burning out
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@mxk no I just spend too much time on wikitionary
