*reads an article about peas in beer*
*Is reminded that originally pease was singular, peasen was plural and pea was a parsing error that stuck*
These are the sort of things I love to remember when I'm #conlanging
@Shutsumon THIS SHARK IS POISONOUS, LET'S FERMENT AND EAT IT!!!
@Anke that's up there with "x thing is poisonous - let's roast it, grate it, leech it in a stream for three days, cook it and see if that fixes it"
Who decided to try all that the first time?
I swear the gatherers among our ancestors must have been mad scientists. (Mwahahah! They called me mad but with this toxic root and a snail shell I will feed the world!)
@Shutsumon also, 'a newt' used to be 'an ewte'
soak ewte!
@quinterbeck language is fun 🙂
@Shutsumon I heard something similar about "a nasp" becoming "an asp" but I don't have a source.
@Shutsumon or maybe it was "a nadder". I don't remember
@ZoeyDoesntToot *pokes the online etymology dictionary* Looks like it was a nadder https://www.etymonline.com/word/adder
Also humans will ferment just about anything. A fact that I love to remember for my #worldbuilding.