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At least we only have one "the"
Who tf pronounces skism like that?! Sch is longer and a bit softer than a sk sound. I guess we're back around to Febuary again .
Could you explain that as if English was my fifth language? (It technically is, but as a Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Bergen are really just dialects of Scandinavian. English is similar, with different dialects for different countries. In some English languages, CH is a K, like in christian. In others, if S is put before, it is pronounced SHH. But that might only be for English English, as my London born colleague pronounce it most of the time. But I might also be ignorant, and if so, great, I might learn something new about linguistics!
Disclaimer: I've had British, no, English and Australian friends and colleagues for more than two decades, and only visited the USA while driving through 17 states one time. So my connection to the English language outside SoMe and other media is primarily English.
The point is pretty much exactly what you said. It doesn't really matter what letters you put any where in any word in English; people will pronounce it however they like anyway. And then there will always be some opinionated arrogant contrary fucker - that's the role that I decided to play in this case - will accuse everyone else of speaking wrong.
Personally, I see and sometimes hear a a difference between 'sk' and 'sch'. Just like I enjoy pronouncing both r's in 'February' unlike most people. I think 'color' should be pronounced differently from 'colour' too, and 'meter' is different from 'metre' . And don't get me started on the difference between 'a' and 'ar'. But all of that is just pettifoggery .
People are going to say it the way they say it anyway. Listen to how most Scots pronounce 'where', 'what' etc.; it's been many hundreds of years since the letters were switched, but most Scots still pronounce it much more like the old spellings 'hwer', hwat' and so on.
So add whatever letters you like, say it however you like, because everyone else will keep on doing whatever fits their culture irrespective of spelling.
It does? How do you figure?
That would just be a miss-spelling of chivalry.
Written English is descriptive - it's describes an existing sound.
"Chivalry" is a loan word from French, which is why it's pronounced with the "S" sound, as French itself is influenced by the S/K sound division from centuries(?) earlier.
Your complaint about consistency is because English is the most syncretic language - it arguably has more loanwords than most other languages have words.
English is like three languages stacked on top of one another while wearing a trenchcoat, pretending to be a single language.
Cómo odio el putísimo Ingles
It'd be more emphatic if you wrote that in another language. For that type of expression the French are usually fairly adept. "Anglaise? Je deteste la pute stupide!"
Disclaimer: I don't speak French, so probably don't actually say that to a real French speaker.
OK, I change it to my mother language.
Schivalry? 🤨
Why would you add an "s" to the word "chivalry" though?
so we could say "schivalry" der ;)
Chivalry, schmivalry.
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