@JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 3 months agoTo distinguish between the word woman and women, we change the A to an E, but only change the pronunciation on the O.message-square36fedilinkarrow-up1260arrow-down140file-text
arrow-up1220arrow-down1message-squareTo distinguish between the word woman and women, we change the A to an E, but only change the pronunciation on the O.@JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 3 months agomessage-square36fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@some_guylink6•3 months agoLooks like it’s time to recommend one of my favorite books: Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme―And Other Oddities of the English Language I found it via an interview with the author on the 99% Invisible podcast: Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse It’s a great book because it lays out, very logically, all the ways our language went to shit. It was a product of the Great Vowel Shift and crappy timing regarding it, plus competing cultures ruling the lands in England.
minus-square@ornery_chemist@mander.xyzlinkfedilink2•3 months ago Corpse, Corps, Horse, and Worse I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. banger poem
Looks like it’s time to recommend one of my favorite books:
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme―And Other Oddities of the English Language
I found it via an interview with the author on the 99% Invisible podcast:
Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
It’s a great book because it lays out, very logically, all the ways our language went to shit. It was a product of the Great Vowel Shift and crappy timing regarding it, plus competing cultures ruling the lands in England.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
banger poem