FUN WITH WORDS!
12 Old Words That Survived by Getting Fossilized in Idioms.
This made the nerd in me very happy. Also, the dork in me now wants to start using "wend" in place of "go" again, and "gaed" instead of "went". I figure the original choice to use go more than wend and to stop using the past tense of go and instead stick with the past tense of wend was pretty arbitrary and silly. Why not try flipping it around a bit?
12 Old Words That Survived by Getting Fossilized in Idioms.
This made the nerd in me very happy. Also, the dork in me now wants to start using "wend" in place of "go" again, and "gaed" instead of "went". I figure the original choice to use go more than wend and to stop using the past tense of go and instead stick with the past tense of wend was pretty arbitrary and silly. Why not try flipping it around a bit?
abjabber:
Pretty awesome. That's weird how "went" stayed and "wend" went haha. 
memorandom:
interesting stuff, although i'd say with 'fro' its only northern english/scottish in the sense of being left over by the viking. words like the swedish for 'from' which is 'frn' (pronounced - almost - 'froan') - i discovered living in sweden that loads of words, often really colloquial scots terms were seemingly derived from swedish, which was a bit of an eye-opener. . .