Date: 2007-04-04 02:01 pm (UTC)
That is one of the things I love about English. It really does steal words from everybody, so you may well have (say) an Anglo-Saxon, a Latin, and a Norse word for something, all co-existing and perhaps slowly gaining different meanings or connotations, perhaps falling out of use or becoming regional idioms.
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