Why does the word 'damn' secretly have an N in it, wrong answers only?

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The word DAMN has an N init, a silent one. But why? Can anyone explain it? Wrong answers only please. Best answer for girls and for guys will get a MHO.

Static_In_The_Attic · Accepted Answer

Many moons ago there was a cross-eyed, dyslexic, somewhat vision impaired elf with a hump on his back on a field trip with his vertically challenged classmates. It was a learning field trip & all the classmates were learning about water. On the field trip the students learned about oceans, waterfalls, rivers & streams. Anyway long story short there was a beaver & at that time beavers weren’t called beavers they were called N’s & the N made a home in the water that looked like a little hut & it looked like it was blocking one side of the stream. Anyway a few of the elves were jumping on the hut in the water & all of a sudden it breaks & the N was MAD. At that time the teacher saw the N’s house for the first time & saw what happened & saw how mad the N was so she called the N’s house a NMAD. Anyway back at school the teacher wrote NMAD on the board & the cross-eyed, dyslexic, somewhat vision impaired elf with a hump on his back wrote it down wrong. Instead of writing NMAD the joker wrote DAMN & when the teacher came over she liked the new word DAMN for the N’s home & she said it sounds great but drop the N & it was spelled Dam. After that the cross-eyed, dyslexic, somewhat vision impaired elf with a hump on his back said DAMN you I liked it the way it was & by the way I’m calling the N a beaver now because BEAVER was his name. Now from what I understand that is how the word DAMN & DAM & Beaver came about.

Just_Ken · Accepted Answer

Historically, the word is rooted in the Latin damnare, meaning "to condemn or inflict a penalty." In a theological context, it refers to a deity condemning a soul to eternal punishment. In modern, everyday usage, it has evolved into a relatively mild colloquial expletive.

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

Damn that's why a solemn thought, perhaps there's a hymn to condemn it upon a roman column. I'll look come autumn.

Jessica405 · Accepted Answer

It's the same reason why there is a silent pee in bath!

OlderAndWiser · Answer

The "n" makes it seem like a more sophisticated word.

RavVid · Answer

I am pretty sure it's those bastard Flemish type setters again, that Caxton hired in 1476.

They stuck letters in that just looked more correct to them because it was more like Euro spelling. Ghost was spelt gost till those Flems stuck a h in to "look better". Bastards.

Then again the great English vowel buggared a lot of words. Knight was pronounced K-night till the English decided to make the K silent. Maybe the n in damn was pronounced till that seemed like to much work and they started saying dam instead.

Still think it is going to come back to that arsehole Caxton though.

indissoluble · Answer

It's a derivative of Latin damnare "to adjudge guilty; to doom; to condemn, blame, reject," from noun damnum "damage, hurt, harm; loss, injury; a fine, penalty,"

DonaldDarko · Answer

Started with a typo. The program neglected to insert a space after the letter m and chopped off the rest of the text all together. No one knows what the text was it happened back in the 1930's

FreyaRed · Answer

It's like building a dam around something evil to prevent its spread out. It just changed due meaning shift in condemned.

AyChingao · Answer

It's a poor abbreviation of "damnation" which likely refers to the Netherlands. It's only an urban legend though

Shiprex · Answer

It's pronounced with the n though. Have you been ignoring pronouncing it wrongly all this time?

NoDecision · Answer

It was supposed to be Damon, but somehow lost the "o".

Nikki1989 · Answer

The “n” in “damn” is a historical leftover.

HelpfulWoman_ · Answer

Men naturally insert an N to silently mourn the centuries of noise they’ve made.

sage2021 · Answer

It does? 🤷🏼‍♀️ There are so many words that have a silent letter i. e., Autumn 🍁

jenna815 · Answer

More written/reading time than verbal and they already had the word DAM published... So an N was added and kept silent...

Friendlybro79 · Answer

It was a typo from the author that originally created the word. It's actually supposed to be damm.

MrChinaski · Answer

It's latin. 'damnare' to condemn, etc. Blame the Romans.

_Jenny_ · Answer

@aviatortom  The dam holds the water back

KostasKouvalis · Answer

It's French😂 And it's not secret 'cuz I can see it

AngryCarl3 · Answer

It's an abbreviation. The rest of the word got cancelled.

Twalli · Answer

I'm guessing you know the correct answer already. It has it so everyone who tries to spell damnit, will spell it wrong.

Cidknee · Answer

Dam fish!  Now you're speaking my language pops, pass those fuckin' potatoes.

NathanDavis · Answer

English makes no sense

exitseven · Answer

some people cannot type worth a danm.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

The same reason volumn has an n in it.

Anonymous · Answer

It's a colloquial contraction of damnation.

ᴍᴀʀʀɪᴇᴅ · Answer

So that no word is left out.

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

Don't know, don't care

Dargil · Answer

damnation?

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