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I can immediately think of a counter example: corps vs corpse. Literally from the same word origin, wildly different pronunciation.
by necrobrit 6y ago
I can immediately think of a counter example: corps vs corpse. Literally from the same word origin, wildly different pronunciation.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoThat’s not a counter-example: the Latin root “corpus” was borrowed through French twice: once in the 16th century (corps) and once in Middle English (first corse, then corpse). This is a case of path-dependence: the newer borrowing is pronounced more like French while the older one has been regularized.