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Re:Let's Settle This by thaumasiotes on Sunday January 09, 2022 @06:57PM (#29868794)
> because it makes it obvious that the "gift has a hard G, therefore..." people have made a mistake.

That's obvious anyway; gift is one word (well, also give) swamped in a sea of other gi- words.

And gift is a very strange one. What is it, a loan from Norse? You'd think, if it were a native word, that it would have turned into something more like "yift", the way we see in e.g. day, I, or yard.

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Re:Let's Settle This by sethammons on Sunday January 09, 2022 @10:16PM (#29870180)
Yard -> Gard/Jard -> Garden. Mind blown.
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Re:Let's Settle This by thaumasiotes on Monday January 10, 2022 @01:14PM (#29878976)
English has a few words taken from Norse that also maintain native equivalents. See also ship / skiff[1]; shirt / skirt.

[1] This one's not Norse.

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