Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year agoThe wonders of English spellingfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1507
arrow-up1507imageThe wonders of English spellingfiles.catbox.moeBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square105fedilink
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agobecause it was literally pronounced like that not too long ago, compare “knight” to “knekt” in swedish.
minus-squareNostraDavid@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoIn Dutch we still have “knecht” (knave/servant), and I recall that Dutch and English have some overlap, so it makes sense. I also recall a video about English, having adopted the Latin alphabet, made less sense than English under the previous Futhark (runes).
because it was literally pronounced like that not too long ago, compare “knight” to “knekt” in swedish.
In Dutch we still have “knecht” (knave/servant), and I recall that Dutch and English have some overlap, so it makes sense.
I also recall a video about English, having adopted the Latin alphabet, made less sense than English under the previous Futhark (runes).