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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months agofun fact: the S in island is completely fucking made up, the original spelling was “iland” with “i” being cognate with “ö” in swedish. It basically means island land and the only reason why there’s an S in there is because some shithead thought it was related to the french word “isle” and felt that INCORRECT idea warranted changing the spelling.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yep. It is indeed. Same with the K in knight, which was added for no fucking reason.
samus12345@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“Knight” used to be pronounced with the “K.” It was always there, it’s not pronouncing it that’s new.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh yeah I confused it with some other word.
samus12345@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“Receipt” is a good example. A silent “P” was shoved in there to make it seem more fancy.
seth@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Probably “night,” which is also properly pronounced with the leading K sound.