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Think of the words "censor" and "sensor"

1d 12h ago by lemmy.world/u/jaykrown in justpost

Spoken exactly the same way, almost exactly opposite meanings.

Read the word "choir" and "noir". Spelled exactly the same with "-oir" ending, pronounced completely different. 🥴

Eating Chipotle with Aristotle

There is a nice poem about this :-)/

Almost like English isn't actually a language, but three languages in a trenchcoat.

Every language has been influenced by others. English monolinguals just really like to think theirs is special.