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Perilously close to "bananas" - like, what if "apples" and "epples" were two unrelated fruits?
by sk5t 6y ago
Perilously close to "bananas" - like, what if "apples" and "epples" were two unrelated fruits?
- jachee 6y agoYou mean like tomato and potato? Or (chile) peppers and (black) pepper? Or artichokes and Jerusalem artichokes? Personally, I think "ah-nah-NAHS" wouldn't be very confusing with "Buh-nan-uhs", at least when speaking. I'll concede that I can see it getting a bit ambiguous in text, though.
- sk5t 6y agoFor robustness we might assign a higher edit distance to an add/delete of a letter as compared to a letter substitution. There are "tomato" and "potato" but no "otato" or "omato". Maybe Jerusalem artichoke is known as a sunchoke in the US for a reason, I dunno. :)