to kirk, kork, korken

a day ago by antonim to c/linguistics_humor

And it's already coming true: https://lemmy.world/post/50821812

farmgineer 19 points a day ago

IIRC, Kirk means Church in the North Germanic languages. I'm not sure how the various OE varieties spelled it. I'm not sure what they would make of that.

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oxbech 4 points a day ago

In danish at least it is “Kirke”, so missing the -e, but nearly yes. I think it very much can be understood to have the meaning of Church. In german there’s Kirche, so again close.

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