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• glibg10b@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not just English. Afrikaans: Ah, 'ere, ee, <the diphthong in “whip”>, <not present in any English words>

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• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is why I had a problem with “phonics” as a teaching philosophy.

  You have “ph” sometimes teaming up to cosplay as a freaking “f”. And that’s one of the easier rules. It’s all broken from the get-go.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My favourite word is pterodactyl

    It’s got a silent letter at the beginning, and then a silent o in the middle, and an invisible a, which you pronounce but don’t type, and then a silent c, before going back to some sort of sanity for the last three letters. Who decided that’s how it should be spelt?

    We already had the word Terra so why did they have to go spell this version Ptero

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