JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 months agoTo distinguish between the word woman and women, we change the A to an E, but only change the pronunciation on the O.message-squaremessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1255arrow-down139file-text
arrow-up1216arrow-down1message-squareTo distinguish between the word woman and women, we change the A to an E, but only change the pronunciation on the O.JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square36fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCarighan Maconar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·5 months agoWait until you try to figure out how to pronounce “ough”, like in rough or through or dough.
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agoLooks like it’s time to recommend one of my favorite books: Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme―And Other Oddities of the English Language I found it via an interview with the author on the 99% Invisible podcast: Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse It’s a great book because it lays out, very logically, all the ways our language went to shit. It was a product of the Great Vowel Shift and crappy timing regarding it, plus competing cultures ruling the lands in England.
minus-squareornery_chemist@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months ago Corpse, Corps, Horse, and Worse I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. banger poem
minus-squareivanafterall@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIsn’t it just pronounced how it looks?
Wait until you try to figure out how to pronounce “ough”, like in rough or through or dough.
Looks like it’s time to recommend one of my favorite books:
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme―And Other Oddities of the English Language
I found it via an interview with the author on the 99% Invisible podcast:
Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
It’s a great book because it lays out, very logically, all the ways our language went to shit. It was a product of the Great Vowel Shift and crappy timing regarding it, plus competing cultures ruling the lands in England.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
banger poem
Isn’t it just pronounced how it looks?