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Except English pronunciation, just like the pronunciation of every other human language hasn't been stable for centuries and English has so far failed to "fossi
by yborg 8y ago
Except English pronunciation, just like the pronunciation of every other human language hasn't been stable for centuries and English has so far failed to "fossilize its current orthography". And there are plenty of other languages with local variants and unstable pronunciation with phonetic alphabets. Japanese has two.