Blaze (he/him) to Linguistics [email protected]English • 4 days agoThe wonders of English spellingfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1476arrow-down126
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•3 days agobecause it was literally pronounced like that not too long ago, compare “knight” to “knekt” in swedish.
minus-squareNostraDavidlinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 days 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).