It rains solid diamonds on Uranus and Neptune

Re:It rains solid diamonds on Uranus and Neptune by int_handler on Friday August 25, 2017 @08:34PM (#15103401)

There is a similar reason for why English swear words sound Germanic: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/06/swear-words-etymo...

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Re:It rains solid diamonds on Uranus and Neptune by lvkleist on Saturday August 26, 2017 @03:35AM (#15104488)

Such an interesting article. Churchill was known to take advantage of this in his speeches, for example in (parts of) the famous "We shall fight them on the beaches": https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/97665/did-the-we...

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. - Winston Churchill

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