• @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            The I as in “free”, but shorter (not drawn out) and the u as in “urban”, maybe? It’s hard to find English words where they make the french U sound, but it’s pronounced the same pretty much all the time.

    • @samus12345
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      1 year ago

      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.