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AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 1 week agoThat’s English for ya! You would think that after the Great Vowel Shift people would have considered re-spelling words and names to more properly fit their roots, but evidently instead they just decided to start pronouncing everything wrong.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 week ago
It also seems like English changing the letter J from a /j/ sound to a /dzj/ sound didn’t help, going by how “Iacobus” became James (or I could see Jacob in there… With English’ old J)
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Yup, that’s the part that drives me most crazy.