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Yeah, and photon is not native english, but greek. But what's native english? All the -gh are old constructs and new english word never follow that pattern, is
by harperlee 11y ago
Yeah, and photon is not native english, but greek. But what's native english? All the -gh are old constructs and new english word never follow that pattern, is that modern english? Or a barbarism taken from another, old english language? What about french words, like garage, are that english?
- hrnnnnnn 11y agoDoes it maybe have to do with how long a loan-word has been in use, or how commonly it's used?
- harperlee 11y agoSure. dvh was commenting the variety of ways the f phoneme can be written down in different english words, and for the purposes of the discussion, elthran's conservative line on where does the english language end is not really super useful. Having 5 or 6 different symbols for a single sound is irrelevant; the point is that the article is considering letters as whole symbols for a sound, when they might be part of a symbol, not the whole symbol, for a sound. If gh is /f/ in a particular word, then using that word as part of the g cancellation is wrong.