re: #157 RealityBasedSteve

To trip him up. Don’t you know that a Muslim can’t say the word “Christ”? it sticks in their throat and they stutter. It’s like Germans can’t say the word “squirrel”.

RBS
who isn’t making up the part about Germans.

Etymology (from Wikipedia page on “squirrel”)

The word “squirrel”, first specified in 1327, comes from Anglo-Norman esquirel from the Old French escurel, the reflex of a Latin word sciurus. This Latin word was borrowed from the Ancient Greek word σκίουρος, skiouros, which means shadow-tailed, referring to the bushy appendage possessed by many of its members.

The native Old English word, ācweorna, survived only into Middle English (as aquerne) before being replaced. The Old English word is of Common Germanic origin, with cognates such as German Eichhorn, Norwegian ikorn/ekorn, Dutch eekhoorn, Swedish ekorre and Danish egern.