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[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago (8 children)

To be fair, most of the weirdly spelled words come from other languages. Especially French.

[–] hagelslager@feddit.nl 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yup, in this case: Yacht comes from the Dutch word "jacht" (hunt). Named after fast sailing vessels to hunt down pirates and enemies.

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago

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[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Uncensored.

Just do a search for a bit of the text before posting this stuff. It's super easy to find the uncensored version.

POST THAT. Let's kill off this censored trash.

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[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My favorite has to be "read" (to read a book) and "read" (previously read a book)

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[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

When I learned that the proper pronunciation of the word queue is basically a letter q followed by a bunch of silent letters, I had to take a break for a while. I enjoy the sound of English language, so that kept me going afterwards, but I am still salty.

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[–] bricklove@midwest.social 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Though he aught to have picked a tougher word.

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[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Lol in Polish

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

Not exclusive to English, but English definitely has a ton of things that just follow no pattern (even by root language, though if you know that, when it was borrowed in, and what vowel shifts it did/not have, you might have a chance).

This did immediately make me think of "Simone Giertz" from Sweeden whose name's pronunciation sounded like 'yecht' to me.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Mandarin

50 000 characters used to live here

[–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was gonna mention the silent k, h, e but then I remember french. They have like 50% silent letters at random. I remember how flabbergasted I was to see millefeuille written the first time.

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[–] NewDark@lemmings.world 13 points 3 days ago (10 children)

In a sick way I'm glad it's the language I was raised with. On the other hand, maybe the British should have conquered less.

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[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I can hear a word in Spanish and immediately know how to spell it. I can read a word in Spanish and know how to pronounce it. We can only dream of doing that in English.

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[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I remember when I was a kid and we started learning foreign languages in school. My class got divided into two halves, ones that study English and other that study German. Few month later I was walking down the street with my classmate and he went like:

Oh, so you're studying English, huh? What does DUHR mean?
What?
DUHRR
Oh, you mean door? It's spelled do-o.
Bro, there's an R in there and two O's. DUHR. Even I know that, and I'm not even the one studying English. If door was do-o, then would you spell TOH DOH as "to do"?

Little did the bro know... I hope he at least got German well enough, AFAIK there's little bullshit like that

[–] peterg@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

As a person who learned English as an adult, u can tell you that the word that gave me the most trouble early on was "weather". I mean these sounds are impossible!!

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