alt Hacker NewsCanada is not just english-speaking, but also french speaking. We have TWO national languages, with equal importance.
This being said, I would suspect the english word gaol comes from the french word geôle.
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catlover76 • last Tuesday at 9:36 PM
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According to Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gaol), gaol and geôle have a common shared ancestor in Old French/Latin. It's not the result of Canada's multilingual nature.