Native English speaker here who celebrates Norwegian heritage with my dad. I myself am not Norwegian or a native speaker of it, but since I’m already a native English speaker, we have sjokk (shock) I guess???
Native English speaker here who celebrates Norwegian heritage with my dad. I myself am not Norwegian or a native speaker of it, but since I’m already a native English speaker, we have sjokk (shock) I guess???
The German word for what is a cookie in North America and a biscuit on the British Isles is “Keks,” which is a bastardization of the English word “cakes.” It is interesting because “Keks” by itself is the singular noun that retains the plural -s ending from English. To pluralize in German it requires an extra -e.
It’s the same in Icelandic, only spelled “kex”. There’s even a hotel in a former biscuit factory with that name.