Curt Doolittle updated his status. —“Ball as in ‘sphere’ comes from Norse ‘bÇ«

Curt Doolittle updated his status.

—“Ball as in ‘sphere’ comes from Norse ‘bÇ«llr’ /bɔlːr/, while ball as in ‘dance party’ comes from Latin ‘ballare’, which in turn became ‘bal’ (French for ‘a dance’). Totally different roots, it’s just one of those quirks of English having absorbed bits of so many different languages.”—