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1. Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Oct-2021 01:38:26 EDT Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰
   It's easier for multilingual people to spell English because we might know the origin of a word better. In English language culture, in particular US English culture, it seems almost a virtue to pronounce a word strictly based on its spelling, disregarding its etymology, stem or other things besides the letters that go into it.
   
   I don't mean this as a dig or sarcasm, I mean it. Just like how people sometimes have a fondness for giving some words a strong conjugation when it used to be weak, they have a fondness for giving pronunciation a local touch and smearing things together.
   1. Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Oct-2021 01:46:46 EDT Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰

      in reply to
      Google are promoting their microkernel OS all over the place and US Americans are pronouncing it /FYOOzha/.
      
      This could be spelled in myriad different ways, but if you know that in German it's pronounced /FOOKsia/, where the /fooks/ part is for Fuchs, the German word for fox and the family name of the 16th century botanist Dr. Leonhart Fuchs, suddenly there's basically only one way to spell it.
   2. Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 22-Oct-2021 11:04:19 EDT Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰

      in reply to
      A comment in /r/humansarespaceorcs just called English "five languages in a trenchcoat".