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Changing "cube" to "kube" would just look like it's pronounced "koob" (e.g. rube, tube, lube), so we swap a minor spelling aggravation for a minor pronunciation
by tbrake 1y ago
Changing "cube" to "kube" would just look like it's pronounced "koob" (e.g. rube, tube, lube), so we swap a minor spelling aggravation for a minor pronunciation edge case. unless you want to go full kyube but we're not putting that on the table.
- nicoburns 1y agokyube or kyoob would definitely be the way to go. It's funny you use "tube" as an example though, as in my British accent I pronounce that as "chube", whereas I believe many Americans would use a "t" sound for that word. Not sure how you settle on a spelling in those cases.
- normie3000 1y agoRegional variations are available! I think the BBC would have had it pronounced tyoob. And don't Americans pronounce it "subway"?
- mcny 1y agoMost Americans sadly never get to ride one anyway.
- smegger001 1y agoNo but they do eat at them.
- xyzzy3000 1y agoIn the north of England it is still commonly 'tyoob'.
- cvoss 1y agoWell, it would be a step backward in the right direction to go with spelling it 'kube' and pronouncing it 'koob'. That would hew to the original Greek. We'd also bring cybernetic back closer to kubernetes. And circle to kuklos. (Side note: It's another spelling "error" that we use 'y' in English to transliterate the Greek upsilon, which looks like 'Y' when capitalized, but is really a better match to 'u'. Hence, hyper and hypo instead of huper and hupo (like super and sub).)
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- int_19h 1y agoWhy would it? "u" generally doesn't follow this pattern in English after "k" any more so than it does after "c". That aside, what you describe is a distinction between yod-dropping and lack thereof, and whether and where it happens is highly dialect dependent.
- hajile 1y agoThis is an issue because vowel letters/digraphs are much more inconsistent than consonant letters/digraphs.