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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.

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The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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I’m Italian and I pronounce both "i"s in the same way. Why is English so strange?
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  In this particular instance, the Great Vowel Shift is to blame. What caused that is up for debate.
  
  In general, English is so strange because it’s a mongrel language, incorporating words from a variety of other different languages.

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