English is a horrific patchwork of other languages, blame whoever they stole it from (etymonline says “probably from moulde, past participle of moulen “to grow moldy” (early 13c.), related to Old Norse mygla “grow moldy,” possibly from Proto-Germanic”).
Similar configurations of letters sound differently 'cos the languages they came from pronounced them differently.
I get it, English is a fuck. I really am enjoying studying Spanish, everything is pronounced exactly as you would expect and there’s never these special rules for random bullshit stolen from other languages lol
I can’t judge English that much, my native language (Welsh) was so clumsily jammed into a modified Latin alphabet that pronunciation it’s unintuitive for people unfamiliar with it to get a grip of (helping lost tourists figure out where to go is murder).
Here! Right here! When you use ‘ou’ in this word it sounds like Mao, right? Well it does in Murican at least
So mould would be pronounced like moald. That’s all I can hear when I read it lol
Yeah but mound only sounds like that 'cos it used to be spelt “mounde”.
Pound. Ground. Sound.
Mould? What?
English is a horrific patchwork of other languages, blame whoever they stole it from (etymonline says “probably from moulde, past participle of moulen “to grow moldy” (early 13c.), related to Old Norse mygla “grow moldy,” possibly from Proto-Germanic”).
Similar configurations of letters sound differently 'cos the languages they came from pronounced them differently.
A hourrific patchwourk ouf outher languages. 😜
I get it, English is a fuck. I really am enjoying studying Spanish, everything is pronounced exactly as you would expect and there’s never these special rules for random bullshit stolen from other languages lol
I can’t judge English that much, my native language (Welsh) was so clumsily jammed into a modified Latin alphabet that pronunciation it’s unintuitive for people unfamiliar with it to get a grip of (helping lost tourists figure out where to go is murder).