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madez
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Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016)
> all are caused my german.
It's not like German were "at fault". English grew out of a common ancestor with nowadays German.
amaccuish
on May 27, 2018
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Sorry, poor english :) and yes that's true, but that common ancestor, west germanic, is they key point here, as it shows us why things are in English.
aap_
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Old High German is not the ancestor of English. Some kind of West Germanic might be called a common ancestor of both English and German.
amaccuish
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My bad, sleepy! I have an exam on this soon so hopefully I'll be good by then :)
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It's not like German were "at fault". English grew out of a common ancestor with nowadays German.