This is my biggest gripe with English
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Diddlydee@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Pronunciation of same letters differently.
Rough. Bough. Cough. Sough. Lough. Dough. Though. Tough.
I also think the way we insert curse words is abso-fucking-lutely unique.
leftascenter@jlai.lu 6 days ago
AA5B@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I like that different pronunciations and spellings are a history of integrating different languages and cultures. Especially now with all the hatred, spite and racism, at least I get to be amused that the language they claim as their own has a fundamental “diversity, equity and inclusion “
(As someone who has historically been too sheltered so thought some societal issues were over dramatized, nothing could make me so pro “diversity, equity, and inclusion” like today’s US politics.)
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 5 days ago
I mean, fanny has been the front bits since long before the yanks started using it as slang in ww1.