The SK Sound in Old English

Anglo-Saxons didn't like this SK sound so it was gradually beginning to disappear. It started to make a comeback when the Vikings began to arrive a couple of centuries later. So English ended up with two versions of the same word. The Anglo-Saxon SHIRT and the Old Norse SCIRT. Both words originally meant the same thing. But over time the words became distinct. Eventually came to refer to a garment worn on the top half of the body. And SCIRT came to referring to a garments worn on the lower half of theBody.