It’s not one wug, two wugayn, three awaag?
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Shihali@sh.itjust.worksto
Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.works•The English features I hate so much that I actually learned their true names.English
0·1 year agoOn 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”)
Shihali@sh.itjust.worksto
Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.works•The English features I hate so much that I actually learned their true names.English
0·1 year agoYou’re about twenty centuries too late on the χ thing. You’re gonna need to go back and talk to the Romans.
B bel looks like Sanskrit bala “strong”.
H1 h1engw looks like Sanskrit agni or Latin ignis, but why n-gw instead of g-n?