PoetPhilosopher
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I try to be pretty syncretic these days and find most beliefs OK so long as they don't hurt people or animals.
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exchemist
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These words are Germanic in origin. What has been lost is the original full pronunciation. But I agree it is arbitrary and confusing.
Other languages do this French has strings of silent letters in its verbs. The Dutch don't pronounce their final 'n' s. Polish seems to be a nightmare. But most of these have some kind of regularity in how things are pronounced, whereas in English just about everything seems to be irregular.
Jedster
Well-Known Member
That's why my spelling could be vastly improved.
I play the board game upwords, a sort of £E scrabble, but have to use a dictionary.
I only just scraped my O-level with the lowest grade.
The only other language I know is Hebrew which has no silent letters,
I shall ask my wife about Polish, since she used to speak it.
Cheers