• hmonkey@lemy.lol
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    11 days ago

    People used to pronounce all the letters and then over time they got lazy and stopped pronouncing everything

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      And they have actually removed some of them. The ê in forêt indicates it used to be spelled forest but that was so long ago that they’re willing to admit it’s not necessary. Unlike the k in knife, what would we do without that!