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▲ 3 r/albania

I've seen references to 'Mashkudhores', and want to ask does someone know what the reference is?

I understand the village Mashkullorë is the topic, but I don't understand what the spelling changes: is there a new meaning? word play? or just a joking pronunciation referencing local accent or something?

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u/topherette — 4 days ago
▲ 20 r/anglish

Anglicising words of Norse origin

while i know most of us accept scandyisms since our languages are close and they're not french, i still like to consider what such words would anglicise to.

mainly it's common patterns like no 'sk', which was almost always 'sh' in old english, inital ca- and ga-/gi- palatalize to cha- or ya-/yi-, initial v- is w-, hard medial g's are also often palatalized or w's (depending on the context) etc.

many of the below forms are/were in attestation (and indeed come from the same proto germanic form), but often in a different sense.

ENGLISH ANGLICISED ('*' indicates not in attestation) NOTES
awkward *avyward
cake chack/*chatch
call chall uncertain if entered Eng. via Norse
cast *chast
club clump
crawl *cravel/crabble
dregs *dredges
dyke/dike ditch
egg ay/ey, eyren (plural)
fellow *feelay> *felly/ *filly
forget *foryit/foryet
fjord firth
gap *yap
get yit/yet
give yive, yave, yiven
gun gouth/guth attested but not in this sense
kid *chid
knife (unchanged)
law lay
leg *ledge also 'bone'
loose leas(e)
raise rear both from *raizijaną (sometimes an unstressed 'z' can become an 'r')
reindeer ronedeer/rondeer
root wirt/wort
scrap shrap
seat set
sister swester (unclear how much O.N. influenced our present form, or whether it evolved naturally)
skin shin
skirt shirt could be differentiated with under-, lower-, hanging- etc.
sky shee also 'himble'
steak *stoke
though thigh thigh or theigh are the expected outcomes of O.E. þēah
Thursday *Thundersday/*Thunorsday
ugly *owly etymology unclear
valkyrie walkirie/walcurry
Viking wiking/*wiching
weak woke
window windeye
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u/topherette — 12 days ago
▲ 6 r/jpop

-late 90s, early 2000s I think

-It was J-pop-esque, melodic, pleasant, with vocals up to the front of the mix

-But with an indie sound, such as would be unlikely to find major radio play. However people into music at the time may have at least heard of them...?

-The woman I think primarily sang in English

-I *think* the name was composed of two (or three?) words maybe, and it may have started with 's'

I had their CD but can't remember the name

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u/topherette — 24 days ago