News from JMS
Welcome to our blog, where we plan to feature news, views and translation clues. Things like: did you know that English cats say ‘meow’, German moggies ‘miau’, French felines ‘miaou’, and Spanish Siamese ‘miau’. Pause for thought…
Hay, rubarb!
Yes, I did drop the ‘h’ intentionally. It seems that David Crystal, professor of linguists at Bangor University, said in a talk at the Hay Festival that he thinks it is inevitable we will drop the ‘p’ from receipt, change the ‘c’ from necessary into a ‘s’ and drop the ‘h’ in rubarb (oops, rhubarb). Apparently, the ‘h’ was never included in Middle English.
Eck, it’s all canging.