Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations?

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Simple answer without typing a textbook is simply that the longer a language exists, the more individual “quirks” it picks up.

Words or idioms from a different language, regional differences in pronunciation that become common, changes in preferred spelling, etc…

Language is protean and ever evolving, which means that no (natural) language is ever going to be without it’s own unique weirdness.

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