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> we are the champions of how to write something easy most difficultly, and crank weirdness of pronunciation to 100 Wurs than Inglish? I hav my dowts.
by blackshaw 3y ago
> we are the champions of how to write something easy most difficultly, and crank weirdness of pronunciation to 100
Wurs than Inglish? I hav my dowts.
- jaza 3y agoWhere do you think the weirdest bits of the English language came from?
- blackshaw 3y agoIf we're talking about spelling, the biggest source of English's orthographic oddness is the Great Vowel Shift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift