• Shihali@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      You’re about twenty centuries too late on the χ thing. You’re gonna need to go back and talk to the Romans.

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          On thinking it over, “proper” spelling of foreign words has done its own share of damage to English spelling. We don’t just have to learn our own spelling conventions, we also have to learn foreign ones. Or not (sent to you from Cairo, Illinois, locally pronounced “care-oh”)