Well, just regular fish.
Did you mean "why"?
Fine.
Right. There are two schools in English. Same writing, same pronunciation, but each has its own meaning and origin.
Interesting. Do carry on, please.
Certainly.
School 🏫 — the Institution
The school that we use to refer to an education institution is a Greek origin.
Skholē (σχολή), meaning idle time.
The ancient Greeks regularly discussed something in their free time. It was their favourite.
The word then became school in English.
School 🐟 — Fish
The other school is perhaps a Proto-Indo-European origin, prefix skel-. Meaning to cut, broadened as a noun to refer to a division.
The word then became school in English. This one means group — specifically for sea or marine animals.
This school — which refers to group of marine animals — appeared about couple hundred years earlier than the institution school — the place to educate young people — in English.
We Take All
English has a tendency to JAM absorbed multiple different origins into one exact word. This is one result example of that tendency. One word with multiple unrelated meanings and origins.
All things considered, it's not just English. Other languages also have this trait. Well, naturally. But English! Oh, English.
Whilst the Borgs say —
🤖 We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Your technological and biological distinctiveness shall be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
English says —
🪶 Spiffing afternoon to you! You will be assimilated. Standard English spelling is, of course, optional.
Resistance is rather futile, old sport, so do be a dear and hand over the vocabulary.
Well, there's nothing... wrong... per se. Except the pronunciation. And the writing. It's simply, generically comical. And most of times, for non-English speaker — and even to English speaker, it's... amusing, frustrating, and both. Very English, that.
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