Comment on For French origin words like "meter" American English inverted the last letters of "metre" to better match the pronunciation. Why isn't it also the case for other similar situations like "possible"?

pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Blew my mind when I learned that the Chinese i frequently works like that and that pinyin is a lie.

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• sznowicki@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s what we did in Polish. It’s „metr”.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Rookie stuff, in Czech we have čtvrthrst. No vowel in sight.

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    • ECB@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Holy hell, I thought Croatian was bad with things like trg

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      • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Only three? Pff. Our favourite sentence to torture foreigners (and small kids learning to talk) is “strč prst skrz krk” which means “put a finger through your throat”.

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