Island

>island
>pronounced iland
Why is there an S when you don't even pronounce it? What the fuck

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I don't fucking know ask Canada, their ancestors came up with that shit.

'knife' and 'knight' baffle me the most
especially since 'night' exists too

t. speaks the language infamous for their silent letters

why is "gh" of "enough" pronounced F?

At least in French we got rid of all those silent "s"

>isle / île
>forest / forêt
>castel / château

Notice how most of the time they got replaced by a ^ for some reason.

>dis is nau a proper ingliš speling dred

they're called dipthongs

I'm pretty sure it's called diphthong

name one(1) dutch word with silent letters

oh you're from the d*tch part, never mind

Someone can't say 'th'

Dhis is nau ë kourekt ëmerikën sentënc

In the old days, the k was actually pronounced.
A "k" to "n" sound was common in anglo-saxon (like in the name Cnut the great). It just disappeared though, but the spelling stuck.

The "gh" sound used to be prounounce like the "ch" sound in achtung or chanukah, except voiced. When the sound disappeared from english, it either stopped being enunciated (night, through, thought) or morphed into the somewhat similar sounding "f" sound (laugh, rough, cough).

Languages change a lot. Written language don't. Most languages have a difference in pronunciation and writing. The degree depends on how much the language changes or when written languages were first introduced to a culture.

Some languages are lucky and have a one to one corrospondance. Those are rare. Most languages have a fairly blatant difference.
Like I heard that written tibetan is so shocking it is nearly impossible to learn because of the differences with the spoken languages. All because the spoken language changed while the written language did not.

I love genuine Germanic words in English language.
I like the Latin influence in English language.
But I hate French influence in English language so badly.

walloons don't have computers

in colloquial dutch the n is often dropped from verbs

All our Hs are silent except the ones with a C before it.

We used to say the k in knight

Why do Norway, Denmark and Finland have the same cross on their flags like what the fugg

Real G's move in silence like lasagna

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"no"
A diphthong is a sound consisting of one vowel transitioning into another one, such as in house. They've got nothing to do with spelling.
If anything, you're talking about digraphes, but having a word for it doesn't automatically make it better anyway

>Blood
Bləd
>Brood
Bro͞od

t. speaks the language that changes the pronunciation of the letter "o" to "a" for no good reason

At least we can read our words how they were written
>-Tion
>-SHən

>tfw to smart for non-english languages

english reformation when?

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>Iceland

>you will never use god tier Hangul for you're writing system

Tis is nau ö korekt inglis speling tred

trivia tidbit: "nigger" is one of the few english words pronounced just like it's written

bw if you ever find yourself in a spelling bee you can use this information to your advantage

>niggah
>nigger

not the same m8

That's like a British or a ghetto version. Americans pronounce the R at the end.

Why don't we just make an alphabet with a character for every syllable sound?
Even if Japanese has 110 sounds and English has over 8000 after you learn them all you will have no spelling issues

Nobody says nigger unless they are being racist
Everyone says nigga like friend
Nigger and nigga are basically 2 different words

thank you for this 1980s movie trivia everybody already knows

Or you could try to have consistent spelling

sjws think they are the same word

or just reform the spelling like everybody does when the pronounciation drifts too far away from it
even if you make a new alphabet it's going to become inaccurate in a few hundred years

no, then it would be "nega"

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>for some reason.
Medieval monks aren't "some reason" though.

no, i sounds like ei in english.

dictionary.com/browse/nigger

Correct them then, if you, inbred whale killer know English better than them, lol

no point, english doesn't make any sense.
Sometimes i is ei, sometimes i is e. It's all very confusing.

fuck letters n sheit lol

TIL

As much as I like France I have to agree with this.

>mfw I perfectly understood all of that
boy that was something. and isn't the "new character" that the American proposed still used in Iceland?

>Colonel
>pronounced kernel

It was "coronel" in Middle French. (and still is in Spanish and Portuguese)

english is not a language, it's a French patois

>Australian education

this, fucking this
what the fuck was wrong with normans/frenchies?