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Cue, as in it’s your cue to speak rather than queue as in line up to wait for something. Truly English spelling is a delight for historical linguists.

• nordsieck 7y ago
  > Truly English spelling is a delight for historical linguists. The worst part to me is that many (often older) loan words have anglicized pronunciation, while other loan words keep their original pronunciation.
  • Dylan16807 7y ago
    Sometimes we borrow a word multiple times!
    • barry-cotter 7y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublet_(linguistics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublet_(linguistics) e.g. > chief, chef, cape, capo, caput and head (French (twice), Latin via French, Italian, Latin, and Germanic, all from the same Indo-European word *ka(u)put "head")
• paulddraper 7y ago
  Ah, I thought it was "queue" as in "put in line to do next"