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Forget dialects, why is it possible in English that words sound different while being spelled the same way? Pronunciation is completely unpredictable, you have
by def_true_false 6y ago
Forget dialects, why is it possible in English that words sound different while being spelled the same way? Pronunciation is completely unpredictable, you have to know (guess) the etymology of every loanword and remember which of them have the original pronunciation and which of them the butchered one.
Why is scythe spelled with a C?.
- bigbubba 6y agoCynthia, cinder, cyrillic... I wonder why scythe is spelled with an S...
- Koshkin 6y agoYeah, it’s kind of crazy that we’ve come to pronounce ‘c’ (which often stands for the Greek ‘K’) as ‘s’...
- ogogmad 6y agoIn the Early Modern period, "scythe" was actually spelled "sithe". The spelling changed to resemble a (false) classical etymology.[1] A similar thing happened to the words "island", "ache" and "tongue", which were originally spelled "iland", "ake" and "tung". See also "some" (originally "sum"), "friend" (originally "frend"), "delight" (originally "delite") and "could" (originally "coude"). [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythe