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"?

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razm@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

| There isn’t really a reason why the spelling is different. That’s just how it happened to develop.

There absolutely is a reason for each of your examples, and again, it comes from French : peuple simple modèle ovale

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