A linguist in Denmark
Sunday, 6 October 2013
Fuck off back to Legoland
So any towns in England ending in by are Danish settlements. The Danish word for ugly is 'grim'. So who decided to call a place Grimsby? Turns out 'grim' can also mean mask. Which must be where we get 'grimace'.
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