You tak the high road, I'll tak the bus.

Some etymology I found out analysing some OE text this week:
The OE word for region was "scīre". Shire.
The word for merchant was "cypman". Keep man.
The word for said was "cwaeð". Quoth.
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Supplemental: the blu-tac that holds my posters up took some of the paint off the walls, and Tip-ex is cheaper than paint.

Hjemve

Words I learned this week:
The Russian word for one is 'Odin'. Related to the Norse god maybe? I've already pointed out some Norse influence in Russian in their word for lightning, molniya (cf. mjolnir)
The Dutch word for a match is 'Lucifer', which I think is just a brand name that stuck, something we linguists call semantic broadening. The same reason hoover now refers to any vacuum cleaner. There are more examples in American English, such as Coke, Xerox and Kleenex.

Getting settled

Settle (v.) "come to rest," Old English setlan, from setl "a seat". Sense of "establish a permanent residence" first recorded 1620s; that of "decide" is 1620s. Meaning "reconcile" (a quarrel, differences, etc.) perhaps is influenced by Middle English sahtlen "to reconcile," from Old English saht "reconciliation," from Old Norse satt "reconciliation." Related: Settling. Settled "firmly fixed" is attested from 1550s.