On: The lost letters of the English alphabet

[jacobush]

English: though Swedish: dock

Makes sense now. The Scandinavian pronunciation is one step harder on the scale with German in the middle.

[pacaro → jacobush]

Also dough, duff, dog, and dick, are all the same word (when used in traditional British cooking)

[pacaro → pacaro]

A little surprised by the downvote.

these cognates are how we get dishes like "plum Duff", and "spotted dick".

Grocery stores sometimes bowdlerize the latter to "Spotted Richard", but "Spotted Dog" would be more appropriate

[infradig → pacaro]

And also hot dog. The 'dog' being the dough or bun, not the meat in the middle.

[DanBC → infradig]

Wait, what? Do you have a cite for that, because everything I've seen calls the meat the dog. This use is from maybe the 1880s when any sausage was called a dog.

http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/hotdog.asp