Old Frisian bore a striking similarity to Old English. This similarity was reinforced in the late Middle Ages by the Ingvaeonic sound shift, which affected Frisian and English, but the other West Germanic varieties hardly at all. Both English and Frisian are marked by the suppression of the Germanic nasal in a word like "us" (), "soft" () or "goose" (): see Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Also, when followed by some vowels the Germanic "k" developed into a "ch" sound. For example, the West Frisian for "cheese" and "church" is and , whereas in Dutch they are and . Modern English and Frisian on the other hand have become very divergent, largely due to wholesale Norse and French imports into English and similarly heavy Dutch and Low German influences on Frisian.