• olosta@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    English is a Germanic language, so Germanic words are fine, foreign just means latin, greek, french…

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      so Germanic words are fine

      Not all Germanic words; it depends on how they found their way into the vocabulary. For example something like “sky” should be still removed, even if Germanic - because it’s an Old Norse borrowing.