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Beer and the northern folks

Name: Anonymous 2007-12-27 17:25

Why do the northern folks call beer by words that resemble ale?
The Danish, the Swedish, the Norwegians, the Estonians, the Lithuanians, the Latvian...

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-09 14:45

nobody knows

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-09 18:48

>>2
So it seems.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-12 21:33

'cause english is a language that takes from other languages. England is northern.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-13 9:49

>>4

So northern countries call beer by words that resemble ale because english borrows words from other languages? lol

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-13 20:04

>>5
I think he means that "ale" came first. Some languages never adopted a second word and use "ale" for both beer and ale.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-25 19:05

In Norway we call ale "mjød", that's Norse fuck yeah!

Beer is "øl"

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