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Really messed up having something so far reaching and giving it such an innocuous name a normal person couldn't possibly understand the implications of. Definitely an evil mind behind that one.

"surreptitiously"

Maybe the GP is also insinuating that Google is full of reptilians?

No, just a native French speaker, where the root word is "subreptice".

In the time honored way of English, we stole it from you and changed the spelling to match our crummy pronunciation.

Well, it happened sometime after 1652:

https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/surreptitiously

Also in the time-honored way of English, we didn't really standardize spelling for another 200 years. Then we started being really pedantic.

And (Norman) French was the official legal language of England from 1066 to 1362, at a time it wasn't even the official language of France itself (that only happened in 1539 with the ordinance of Villers-Cotteret replacing Latin in legal documents).

To this day some ceremonials of Parliament like the King's Assent to promulgate legislation are still in Norman French.

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