the servers wore crosses

to shield from the suffering plaguing the others. styrofoam plates, cafeteria tables, charity reeks with cheap wine and pity~styrofoam plates-death cab (maybe my favorite song ever)

i would like to congratulate david with his intense study of the phonetical differences between sean and seal, though the spellings are so closely related since the first three letters are shared. these questions are extremely thought provoking and i would like to provide a fulfilling answer to davids questions, based on etymology, or the study of the origins of words. seal has two major meanings, one being the animal and the other is the act of closing up. experts are unsure where exactly seal the animal name comes from, though it is immediately derived from the old english seolh, which is based on the swedish sjol. this swedish is thought to have its root in an unknown finnic-ugrian word. Seal, the verb on the other hand, has its basis in the wax used to close envelops, which is found in Latin as sigillum or signum. Old English for seal is insegil, which shows the evolution from sigillum to seal.
Sean on the other hand is of Irish-gaelic origin, a language which formed outside of the grasps of latin and the mutt germanic languages. in irish gaelic the se is always pronounce with a "sh" sound, thus creating the shawn sound that my name encompasses. the reason that sean and seal are so different in their pronunciations despite their similarities is that they are from two different languages altogether, while using the same roman alphabet. hhhh, goodnight
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