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Loch is different, you mean more like ‘lock’, or ‘autochthonous’
Loch is different, you mean more like ‘lock’, or ‘autochthonous’
All languages do, English is just a title holder
That’s a slightly different phenomenon called a mondegreen (Hendrix singing ‘scuse me while I kiss this guy’ etc)
Caco = shit (same as caca/kaka in many European languages
Daemon = background program that does things without user input
-iacal = suffix turning the above into an adjective
So, Windows 11
It’s striking how different it sounds. I have knowledge of Latin, French and German, and Portuguese sounds way more like a German dialect on casual overhearing than the one it’s derived from or its modern descendant it’s closely related to!
Exactly! A segue between the inventor’s life and death!
Guess that’s why nobody coined the term “lingua anglia”
*pronunciation. So, spelling too ;)
I came here to reed!
All mispronunciations can be defended with linguistic descriptivism. It’s usually a pissweak argument though!
Challenge accepted: non-standard spellings are very common. I won’t use the obvious example, rough/though/through/tough/cough/enough/Gough, I’ll try to keep on theme. So give these ones a go: argue, vague, ague, merengue, brogue, chaise-longue, fatigue… are these all practical jokes or just accidents of lexicographic history?
Doesn’t St Peter have some sort of toll booth at the pearly gates, or is that just in old jokes?
And that’s why I don’t like cricket.
I appreciated this comment, that’s a great show and tell story.
So that healthcare and education, among other things, are more equitable. Taxes are for subsidising a public good.
Read the other comments please.
Thanks for this :)
I agree with your last point - and I may be a bit bourgeois (not to mention ignorant) myself. I’d appreciate recommendations if you wouldn’t mind.
Reverse irredentism! Now what about historically German lands? From the Maas to the Memel…
That one was deliberate actually - some pompous reformer (possibly Dr Johnson or a follower) decided we needed certain spellings to be more like Dutch. That’s where the H came from in ‘ghost’ as well, used to be ‘gost’ like in ‘most hosts’