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You can feel how cathartic this must have been for someone (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If they are silent, they don't chang the pronunciaton, becaus if they do they are not silent.

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In that persons comment, they removed several "silent" e's, but all but one changed the word's pronunciation. I was talking about them. Like the E in hate. It doesn't make a sound itself, so isn't it still silent?

[–] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not silent, but in the wrong place. Haet would be more correct, as it changes the pronunciation from [hæt] to [heɪt]. Hait might be an even better way to write it (see also: bait, maid, laid etc.)

English is a weird language.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

English is three languages wearing a trench coat and pretending to be one.

[Off topic:]

I just now realized that the word “trench” is in “trench coat”.

[…] heavy-duty fabric,[1] originally developed for British Army officers before the First World War, and becoming popular while used in the trenches, hence the name trench coat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_coat

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it - what about "trench" being in "trench coat" ..?

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

In my mind, “trench coat” was always a single word. I never noticed that it is two words, one of them being trench, as in war infrastructure. It was interesting to find that out.