Well, you'll discover, if you google "swindle etymology" that the English word is derived from the German. Another example of borrowing....

visit Cymru next....
rcahmw.gov.uk/wp-content/u...

Noted a number of reports from LA describing celebrities' homes as being "totally decimated"?
Should we:-
- insist journalists only use words they know the meaning of?
- accept that language evolves and curb our finickiness?
- or accept that many posts on social media are just designed to irritate?

from The Guardian

That gave me a fright!

I have a Telegraph subscription so you don’t have to.

Does anybody relish a future with President Vance in it?