There was no distinct word for a “husband” or a “wife” in Old English; to refer to one’s spouse most commonly people simply said “my man” (mīn ċeorl / mīn wer) or “my woman” (mīn wīf), the semantic habit of which survives today.
As “wīfmann” (lit. ‘woman+person’) came to be the more common word for woman in Middle English, the word “wīf” defaulted to meaning a married woman, instead of just any woman. Around this time we also see Old Norse húsbóndi coming into English and replacing ċeorl as the most common word for a husband.
The Henry Nowak thing. If you watch the video, before Nowak complains of being unable to breathe and having been stabbed, the one police officer notes that "he has a mouthful of blood". Now when a person with a mouthful of blood starts complaining that they can't breathe and that they have been stabbed, alarm bells should be starting to go off. Then, a few moments later a policewoman requests an ambulance saying "His pupils aren't even reacting". By that point anyone with any bit of sense would surely have realised that there was a very serious problem. Now these same officers, apparently having been bereft of anything approaching basic common sense, are blaming their DEI training.
The Henry Nowak thing. If you watch the video, before Nowak complains of being unable to breathe and having been stabbed, the one police officer notes that "he has a mouthful of blood". Now when a person with a mouthful of blood starts complaining that they can't breathe and that they have been stabbed, alarm bells should be starting to go off. Then, a few moments later a policewoman requests an ambulance saying "His pupils aren't even reacting". By that point anyone with any bit of sense would surely have realised that there was a very serious problem. Now these same officers, apparently having been bereft of anything approaching basic common sense, are blaming their DEI training.
ah yes reminds me of that classic poem that starts, ‘first they came for themselves and i did not speak out for they had already taken themselves away so the problem was over’
ah yes reminds me of that classic poem that starts, ‘first they came for themselves and i did not speak out for they had already taken themselves away so the problem was over’