naturalplastic wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
In Old English two was spelled/pronounced as 'twa'; ironically it's a homophone for how three is said in French, trois.
Hmmm....
When the French speaking Normans conquered England in 1066 it probably lead to a lot of confusion over which number was being said. So that's probably why the native English peasants changed saying it from "twa" to "twooo" (which later gotten shortened to "too" but retained the archaic spelling).
I don't imagine that would be the case, just like the English word's pronunciation has changed over time, so has the French word's. English has had pretty significant vowel shifts over the years, it's not just the word 'two' that's shifted.
It's not a bad guess, but falls apart with more information.
I can lecture on linguistics for weeks, like Noam Chomsky.
Unrelated: I'm grateful Noam Chomsky doesn't rap, he'd win the whole game.
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