The first borrowing, gaol , came with the Norman Conquest when a lot of Norman French words to do with law and politics and governance were introduced into English. The second borrowing, jail , came about three centuries later from Parisian French.
They ultimately are the same word — Old Northern French used the form gayol and Parisian French the form jaile. Both forms existed in English but the form gaol was the one that had been taken on by British law. Of course the gaol spelling gives rise to the inevitable confusion between gaol and goal. Webster opted for jail as the most sensible spelling to adopt and, in time, others have come to see that he had a point.
The spelling gaol was the accepted spelling in Australian English until the s, as evidenced by the change in the Third Edition of the Macquarie Dictionary Many style guides, particularly newspaper style guides, led the way in this. Indeed the spelling in British English is now jail with gaol as a lowly placed variant. The spelling jail is the most common spelling now in Australian English.
But, as a matter of fact, these two terms may actually pertain to one same thing. Or is it not? Jail is the most convenient and most commonly used term that pertains to a place where individuals are confined and, unlike hospitals, deprived of certain personal conveniences and freedoms.
In the U. However, the classification system of American correctional facilities has placed the term jail, as well as prison, as minor subtypes of a correctional facility.
The prisons are the ones that house the criminal felons who are already convicted of their crimes for long stretched sentences. Jails are similar to prisons but can also house those who await their trial and the convicted persons of acts of misdemeanor.
Unlike prisons, jails are places where the said individuals serve for a shorter period of time, usually less than a year. Gaol is practically the same as a jail. It is just a term that is far more recognized or used in Australia and the U. Later on, the term gaol was pronounced, in Old French style, in the same way as how one pronounces jail.
Nowadays, jail gaol is being run by observing the criminal system of individual nations. Amazing Lawyer!!! She helped me win my custody battle with flying colors!
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