Reply To: Borrowing/Loaning a Sefer Torah

@laskern
From Merriam-Webster
“It turns out that the verb loan had fallen out of use in England during the 18th and 19th centuries in favor of lend. (Lend is the earlier word, dating back to about the 11th century, and comes from the Old English verb lænan.) But loan as a verb survived in American English, which hadn’t kept pace with the changes to the language that were happening in British English. British English speakers noticed the verb and decried it as uncouth and provincial—it had to be if it was in the mouths of Americans.”

It goes without saying that the the Americans and Brits are one people divided by a common language-LOL
We are provincial in the former colonies and don’t always use Britspeak.