Wibbles

Never touch the stuff.

I thought everybody knew what a dual passive low pass gate was.

It's all good by me. Your post raises many discussion points ... but thankfully for everyone else I've run out of steam for the day.

I tried watching the video with the sound off, but it still had Ed Sheeran in it.

What did you expect was going to happen?

I've been illegally picking bluebells. I've heard they're a remedy against Covid-19.

It's all about the chorus.

Through constant vigilance, I think I've managed to avoid ever hearing more than a minute of one of his songs. Occasionally it has involved this:

Old English (and many other Germanic languages) were originally written using a runic system. It was from about the 8th century that this was replaced with a version of the latin alphabet.

Who knew that the Coffee House had so many cunning linguists?

I'm confused by the term "Germanic/Keltic". Germanic and Celtic languages are on very different branches of the Indo-European language family tree.

I know you didn't want an answer, so here you go: Colonel - meaning the military rank - derives from the mid-16th-century French word coronelle, meaning commander of a regiment, or column, of soldiers. By the mid-17th century, the spelling and French pronunciation had changed to colonnel. The English spelling also changed, and the pronunciation was shortened to two syllables. Kernel derives from the Middle English kernel, kirnel, kürnel, from Old English cyrnel, from Proto-Germanic *kurnilaz, diminutive of *kurną (“seed, grain, corn”).

Also the pronunciation and meaning of words change over the years. Further, a lot of the so-called "paradoxes" are wrong. The first piece says more about the author's lack of knowledge than it does about the English language.

... and Ed Sheeran, never.

Hooker ... a song about a gigolo:

But llamas are so ... not known for living in Nepal.