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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Such things are possibly influenced by things like Latin. English (generally) has different written forms for noun and vern forms, which kind of reflect spoken language (though none of this is set in pudding, let alone stone).

There’s a great podcast “The History of English” By Kevin Stroud, that discusses such things.

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otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
For historical or proper words, yes. But I don’t think mistakes would be influenced by Latin…right? Lol

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- Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I imagine people are confused and don’t know the rules, because of things like the attempt to make English match Latin grammar, plus the rules from French and Middle/Old English (which is where some of these things come from).
  
  English is very inconsistent in the rules, you almost have to know a word’s etymology to apply the right rules.
  
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