English Sky
I found a fun fact today about the English word “sky” (French: ciel). It comes from the Old Norse word “sky” which means “cloud” (French: nuage) which explains a lot about the British climate! The modern Norwegian word for “cloud” is “sky”, and the word for “sky” in Norwegian is “himmel”. The […]
Entente Cordiale
« Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose » I was thinking recently about how different the French and English languages were, yet also that they were so similar. So I did some investigation and got some pretty interesting results! “Ch” becomes “C” /k/ chat = cat chapeau = cap The circumflex (^) […]
by Académie des Langues