English used to be phonetic, it's just people started changing the way they pronounced vowels, but the spelling stayed the same. For example, both the k and the gh in "knight" used to be pronounced.
Tell me about it English is a bastardised language made up of so many different languages rules.
Have you heard of Lee and Perrins Worcestershire sauce? It's pronounced wuster-shere.
Great sauce btw, real umami flavour and great on cheese on toast.
My favourite is Wymondham. (Like the blowy kind,) Wind-um.
Anglophones have no right to complain about French pronunciation. What the fuck is this shit?
Half the reason our pronunciation is so weird is that a bunch of French guys took over England
It would be so much easier if we had accents over our vowels, like in a lot of languages to indicate which of that vowels sounds was wanted.
https://oldenglish.info/advpronunciationguide.html
English used to be phonetic, it's just people started changing the way they pronounced vowels, but the spelling stayed the same. For example, both the k and the gh in "knight" used to be pronounced.
Tell me about it English is a bastardised language made up of so many different languages rules. Have you heard of Lee and Perrins Worcestershire sauce? It's pronounced wuster-shere.
Great sauce btw, real umami flavour and great on cheese on toast.
My favourite is Wymondham. (Like the blowy kind,) Wind-um.
Also, fuck Worcester sauce.
I like Towcester.
Excellent for breakfast crumpets.
James Acaster's classic Kettering Town FC bit starts with another example 😁
I've heard it as "English isn't a language. It's three languages under a trench coat, pretending to be a language."
ever heard of ghoti?
Yes. I have also heard of "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."