oce 🐆 to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 2 months agoFor French origin words like "meter" American English inverted the last letters of "metre" to better match the pronunciation. Why isn't it also the case for other similar situations like "possible"?message-square33fedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down111
arrow-up159arrow-down1message-squareFor French origin words like "meter" American English inverted the last letters of "metre" to better match the pronunciation. Why isn't it also the case for other similar situations like "possible"?oce 🐆 to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 2 months agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squarepruwybenlinkfedilink21•2 months agoI say we just admit that R can be a vowel, and drop the E entirely.
minus-square@ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comlinkfedilinkEnglish11•2 months agoBlew my mind when I learned that the Chinese i frequently works like that and that pinyin is a lie.
minus-square@sznowicki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•2 months agoThat’s what we did in Polish. It’s „metr”.
minus-squareRikudou_Sagelinkfedilink8•2 months agoRookie stuff, in Czech we have čtvrthrst. No vowel in sight.
minus-square@ECB@feddit.orglinkfedilink3•2 months agoHoly hell, I thought Croatian was bad with things like trg
minus-squareRikudou_SagelinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-22 months agoOnly three? Pff. Our favourite sentence to torture foreigners (and small kids learning to talk) is “strč prst skrz krk” which means “put a finger through your throat”. You can try it yourself, the “č” sound is the same as English “cz” in “Czech”.
I say we just admit that R can be a vowel, and drop the E entirely.
Blew my mind when I learned that the Chinese i frequently works like that and that pinyin is a lie.
That’s what we did in Polish. It’s „metr”.
Rookie stuff, in Czech we have čtvrthrst. No vowel in sight.
Holy hell, I thought Croatian was bad with things like trg
Only three? Pff. Our favourite sentence to torture foreigners (and small kids learning to talk) is “strč prst skrz krk” which means “put a finger through your throat”.
You can try it yourself, the “č” sound is the same as English “cz” in “Czech”.