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Funny, but that last one counts for Gaelic, not French.
Without reason, sure, but with a gender
As someone learning french, all you gotta do is take an english word, add a bunch of vowels, and Vièoulâh!
I understand how letter combinations in french are hard to get at first and there are sometimes many ways to write a sound, but once you learn them you will always know how a new word is pronounced. English is such a joke of a language that you never know how a word is pronounced until you hear it or you happen to know its ethymology...
So what you gotta do is settle the island with a bunch of Germans, then get conquered some centuries later by the French. Steal all the vocabulary from French - especially the vocabulary of the nobility - but keep the German grammar. Then just for fun when you are about to standardize your spelling with the invention of the printing press import a bunch of Dutch people to do your spelling for you
Don’t forget getting converted by St. Augustine bringing Latin and Greek words!
And who could forget grabbing all available loanwords from The Colonies
Slavic languages: nothing is silent. We write as we speak. For this we will also write your name as we think it should be written.
Example: Hju Džekman
"Write as we speak"
The biggest lie of the russian language.
In theory yes, but pronounciation of о depends on if it has stress or not and stress of the word you have to just know.
Fun fact, Poles in their infinite wisdom switched from using Cyrillic alphabet which naturally maps to Polish sounds https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/polishcyrillic.htm
Huh. NATOpedia tells me that the Latin has always been the predominant script for Polish. But it only traces this back to the 13^th^ century or maybe the 10^th^, coinciding with the Christianization of Poland. Supposedly it was only a spoken previously, which sounds to me like historical revisionism to erase a Cyrillic predecessor. But if Cryllic only dates back to the 10^th^ century… 🤷
Aye whundher why
ils huent = they boo
only the u is needed
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