Blaze (he/him) to Linguistics [email protected]English • 1 month agoThe wonders of English spellingfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up1485arrow-down126
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month agobecause it was literally pronounced like that not too long ago, compare “knight” to “knekt” in swedish.
minus-squareNostraDavidlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 month agoIn Dutch we still have “knecht” (knave/servant), and I recall that Dutch and English have some overlap, so it makes sense. I also recall a video about English, having adopted the Latin alphabet, made less sense than English under the previous Futhark (runes).
because it was literally pronounced like that not too long ago, compare “knight” to “knekt” in swedish.
In Dutch we still have “knecht” (knave/servant), and I recall that Dutch and English have some overlap, so it makes sense.
I also recall a video about English, having adopted the Latin alphabet, made less sense than English under the previous Futhark (runes).