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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Quire should become the correct spelling for the word 'choir'.

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Quire should become the correct spelling for the word 'choir'.

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

It would be far more consistent with the pronunciation of other similar words.

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Thanks to dwarf fortress I know a quire is a medieval folded paper book
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  By the time I got paper things going, everyone was dying to were creatures. Did make soap though, if only that could clean bite wounds enough, alas.

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