Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised. I love learning things about indigenous cultures.
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t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 months agoAnd here I thought it was derived and bastardized from manna the bread. TIL
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AbelianGrape@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Which, to be fair, is also derived from a word which would be most accurately (with English vowels) pronounced as mah-nuh. Although at this point “manna” is definitively also a word of English whose correct pronunciation is with /æ/.