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.
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.