English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.
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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 8 hours agoIt had its own logic before the inanity of French came in during the Norman Invasion
edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Also before the English fixed their spelling in like 1500, and then did 500 years of sound shifting. It needs a spelling reform, desperately.