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If you could experience one historical event firsthand, which would it be and why? (lemmy.world)

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For me it is the "fall of the Berlin wall" and the celebrations after the border openings.

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[-] Ddub@lemmy.ca 33 points 7 months ago

Seeing the first person to spell subtle with a b

[-] BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 7 months ago

It didn't use to, the b was added back in cause the Latin word has one and making words look like Latin was all the rage at one point.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 7 months ago

At least "subtle" is ultimately from Latin, and the Latin word (subtilis) does have a /b/.

There are worse cases - like the "s" in "island". It was never pronounced.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

the "s" in "island". It was never pronounced.

I think I can confidently say there is someone out there somewhere that pronounces it.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Captain, I think we've hit a reef!

No....is land!

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 10 points 7 months ago

"Hey, Willum, come over here and look at this misspelling of 'Suttel'. It's just better isn't it?"

[-] cogman@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

English got fucked... hard... because so many of the spellings came from people that had weird goals.

Consider phial. Why do we spell it that way? Because some jackass decided that english needed to be more latiny and ph is more latiny than v. (or maybe it was greek? I don't remember the exact etymology)

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 7 months ago

Anglish is an attempt to reverse that, and remove Latin, Greek, and French words from English.

[-] Goudewup@feddit.nl 3 points 7 months ago

Hah that's interesting, a lot of this wiki is quite easy to decipher as a Dutch and English speaker

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