What the list tells me is that if you do that, they might just kill it in year six anyways.

Not exactly how that works.

Got any pointers to references we can read up to learn more?

Or perhaps it presumes a shortage of domestic workers that are both qualified and also fit into the pay scales that US employers wish to pay. That intersection may be harder for employers to find.

Sure, English is terrible. Don’t forget dollar, pillar, cougar, burglar, doctor, actor, or aviator. Yet, oddly enough, somehow most people deal with them, and life goes on.

Go read about The Great Vowel Shift; it’s pretty informative.

I’d have to say pre-Nixon