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Explain French (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/linguistics_humor

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That can't be the original name. Scrumb wick shire ford? What's a Scrumbwick? Why both -shire and -ford endings? How did both get removed, and now it's a -field ending?

That makes no sense at all, surely?

Why not Scrumford? Or Wickford? Might as well change the name to Stavanger for all the sense Sheffield makes.

[–] mindbleach 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That can’t be the original name.

Correct, it's bullshit.

But it's illustrative of merely contrarian nonsense like Rampisham being "Ransom" or Southwark being "Suthik."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you saying contractions are contrarian nonsense?

[–] mindbleach 3 points 2 weeks ago

You are bringing some weird takes to a gag thread in a gag community.