Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhat is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?message-squaremessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down11
arrow-up180arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square73fedilink
minus-squareClepsydrae@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year ago“Though” The first two letters don’t sound like themselves, and the last three are silent. The word is 83% lies.
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoIt would be half-true if we hadn’t gotten rid of a letter (the thorn, which made the"th" sound) For a long time, they used the letter “Y” instead of “th”. That’s how we have weird relationships with old English words like “You/Thou,” and “The/Ye.”
minus-squareCoggyMcFee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 year ago“You” and “thou” come from different roots. They are not simply different orthographies like “ye” and “the”. https://www.etymonline.com/word/thou https://www.etymonline.com/word/you
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe word Through is just cheating at Scrabble -Eddie Izzard
“Though”
The first two letters don’t sound like themselves, and the last three are silent. The word is 83% lies.
It would be half-true if we hadn’t gotten rid of a letter (the thorn, which made the"th" sound)
For a long time, they used the letter “Y” instead of “th”.
That’s how we have weird relationships with old English words like “You/Thou,” and “The/Ye.”
“You” and “thou” come from different roots. They are not simply different orthographies like “ye” and “the”.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/thou
https://www.etymonline.com/word/you
The word Through is just cheating at Scrabble
-Eddie Izzard