105

submitted 4 months ago by DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

120 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Is it “Camel-uh” or “Cam-ahl-uh”?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's 'cause we took the letters from Latin, which actually had 5 vowels, and applied it to a Germanic language which, in my dialect, has 17.

We also standardised the spelling in patches hundreds of years ago, and never updated it, but that's a sort of separate issue.

this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024

105 points (84.8% liked)

Asklemmy

43950 readers

691 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS