• guy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s a bunch of words spelt annoyingly because those bastard scholars decided they’d like to incorporate the historic roots of words, rather than the reality of words, in their spelling.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe they intended the pronunciation to change too, and for whatever reason only the spelling did.