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  • Norse is old Norwegian/Danish kinda.

    Norman is old French.

    The Normans were northmen (aka Scandinavians) that were allowed to settle in the Normandy (north west France). (They were the ruling class, the inhabitants from before continued to live there).They then adopted the French language.


  • Out of the languages I know, non have the nonsensical letter-sound pairings that English has. French has some combinations you wouldn’t expect (like eaux= o) but they are consistent in every word they appear. Irish also has some wild letter combinations, but I know to little about that to know, if it’s as confusing as English.

    To illustrate, I would say you could write the words above a lot easier and understandably:

    Taut, thou, thaut, thru, thruout, thorou, tuff

    Grammatically, English is pretty easy. But the pronunciation is so inconsistent, that it is necessary to hold spelling bees in school. My language doesn’t need spelling bees for example.