The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential New York food than […]
Indeed it is! And lax in Icelandic as well, which remains the closest to old Norse.
It’s just the British trying to be fancy with their salmon.