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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by barry-cotter on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:50PM (#21265429)
Cue, as in it’s your cue to speak rather than queue as in line up to wait for something. Truly English spelling is a delight for historical linguists.
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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by nordsieck on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @09:01PM (#21265962)
> Truly English spelling is a delight for historical linguists.

The worst part to me is that many (often older) loan words have anglicized pronunciation, while other loan words keep their original pronunciation.

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:06AM (#21266955)
Sometimes we borrow a word multiple times!
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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by barry-cotter on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:05AM (#21267818)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublet_(linguistics)

e.g.

> chief, chef, cape, capo, caput and head (French (twice), Latin via French, Italian, Latin, and Germanic, all from the same Indo-European word *ka(u)put "head")

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by paulddraper on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:40PM (#21265825)
Ah, I thought it was "queue" as in "put in line to do next"
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