• stebo
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    3010 months ago

    whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense

    that just about describes half the English vocabulary

      • stebo
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        810 months ago

        at least it doesn’t have random h’s like thorough etc.

        • Kiwi_Girl
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          910 months ago

          Burrough turned into burrow and borough, both pronounced differently to brow, rough, trough, thought and through.

          I hate English.

          • stebo
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            510 months ago

            The funniest about this is that I once watched a video on interesting languages to learn and they were like “this language is super interesting because you spell everything the same as you pronounce it”… yeah like any normal language?

            • @trolololol@lemmy.world
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              29 months ago

              I understand languages get to change over time and once upon a time edinborough was actually pronounced close to it’s spelling, not the butchered edinbra of today. But why the fuck hasn’t the spelling catch up completely puzzles me, since no other language I’ve heard of has issues to the same degree.

              • stebo
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                19 months ago

                Right? If the pronunciation changes, change the spelling too.

      • tkc
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        210 months ago

        Literally said how its spelt though? Am I missing something?