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> But "chs" is just nonsensical. The idea that it would sound like "sh" is baffling In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh and nobody bats an eye, I don't t
by lloeki 10mo ago
> But "chs" is just nonsensical. The idea that it would sound like "sh" is baffling
In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh and nobody bats an eye, I don't think it's that outlandish that someone once read it as fuch-sia, incorrectly splitting it compared to the original.
In the language French, fuchsia is unequivocally read something more like few-shia, and I'd bet that even though it comes from German Fuchs-ia (fooks-ia) English has picked it up from the French side.
If you find such a loanword weird, don't you dare try reading Japanese.
https://aethermug.com/posts/the-beautiful-dissociation-of-the-japanese-language https://aethermug.com/posts/the-beautiful-dissociation-of-th...
- soiltype 10mo ago> In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh No, it's not. Unless you think the "n" in french is pronounced "nt".
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- lloeki 10mo agoFine, and legit. I get what I deserve for not looking it up! Scaramouch and crochet though.
- crazygringo 10mo agoSure, and cache and cloche. But the question here is chs, not ch. Which though rare, is widely understood to be a kind of guttural sound or "k" sound followed by an s. In -uchs or -ichs coming from German. Not the "sh" sound in fuchsia.
- majoe 10mo agoDamn, I always thought Fuchsia is just a colour, but today I learned - Fuchsia is a flower - which is named after a German botanist (Leonhart Fuchs) - Fuchsia in English is pronounced completely different than in German. - Google is surprisingly bad at naming their products
- crazygringo 10mo ago> In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh It's not, though.