Episode 157: Highlands, Lowlands and Netherlands
The History of English Podcast
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The Relationship Between Scots and English
The word croon is also a dutch word that passed into scots and then was borrowed into english in the 15 hundreds. Another word that followed that same path is the word dollar, which we've seen before in the podcast. The people of scotland apparently embraced the term dollar to distinguish their currency from the currency of england in the south. But most of the scots lexicon was germanic because it evolved out of old english.
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