Comments by "B. Xoit" (@b43xoit) on "RobWords" channel.

  1. English speakers say "cabinet maker" and "millwright" for the finer variants.
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  2.  @zhouwu  Those are all second person plural. There were two verbs for "to be". The infinitives were "bēon" and "wessan". "bēoþ" is the second-person plural for the former. The other two are dialectial forms of "wessan". Wes þū hal!
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  3. But surely they could understand each other's dialects.
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  4. There's more Old English in it than Norse.
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  5. Rules and regulations? How do you tell which is which? Or is each rule also a regulation, and each regulation also a rule?
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  6. I believe it's the latter distinction.
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  7. Yes and I gather that the plural was "fiscas", pronounced "fiskas".
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  8. "Gender" for people rather than words.
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  9. Attercop, "poison-head".
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  10. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cobble thinks so, although it doesn't explain the connection between round things and shoe repair.
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  11. I read somewhere that those pretty much come from one author.
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  12. O. E.: fisk, fiskas (pron feesh, feeskahs)
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  13. OE "sc" was pronounced like today's "sh" according to all the teachers. So, "fisc" really was "fish". But the plural was "fiscas", pronounced "fiskas".
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  14. French.
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