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Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by Zarath on Sunday May 27, 2018 @06:23PM (#17169422)
nife is fine
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Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by gizmo686 on Sunday May 27, 2018 @08:06PM (#17169875)
Why is there an "e" at the end?
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Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by asveikau on Sunday May 27, 2018 @08:31PM (#17169954)
I'm reminded of how English orthography has that weird thing where the presence of a silent E can seemingly change the vowel in the previous syllable. For example the Tom Lehrer song, "who can turn a can into a cane? Silent E..."

So a hypothetical "nife" would never be mistaken for "neef", as "nif" could be.

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Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by Izkata on Sunday May 27, 2018 @09:02PM (#17170051)
Or mistaken for niff. [0]

(No, I didn't know this word existed before this moment.)

[0] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/niff

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