The original post: /r/askscience by /u/wlane13 on 2025-02-21 16:15:46.

Not sure if this is Social Science or should be elsewhere, but here goes…

I know of course there are regional dialects that make for differences, and of course different countries call things differently (In the US they are French Fries, in the UK they are Chips).

But I’m talking more like how Old English is really almost a compeltely different language and how the words have changed over time.

Is there “Old Spanish” or “Old French” that native speakers of those languages also would be confused to hear?