Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (2015)

Re:Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (2015) by def_true_false on Saturday October 17, 2020 @01:09PM (#24811432)

Forget dialects, why is it possible in English that words sound different while being spelled the same way? Pronunciation is completely unpredictable, you have to know (guess) the etymology of every loanword and remember which of them have the original pronunciation and which of them the butchered one.

Why is scythe spelled with a C?.

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Re:Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (2015) by ogogmad on Saturday October 17, 2020 @03:41PM (#24812574)

In the Early Modern period, "scythe" was actually spelled "sithe". The spelling changed to resemble a (false) classical etymology.[1] A similar thing happened to the words "island", "ache" and "tongue", which were originally spelled "iland", "ake" and "tung".

See also "some" (originally "sum"), "friend" (originally "frend"), "delight" (originally "delite") and "could" (originally "coude").

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythe

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Re:Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (2015) by bigbubba on Saturday October 17, 2020 @01:14PM (#24811459)

Cynthia, cinder, cyrillic... I wonder why scythe is spelled with an S...

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Re:Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (2015) by Koshkin on Monday October 19, 2020 @10:03AM (#24826428)

Yeah, it’s kind of crazy that we’ve come to pronounce ‘c’ (which often stands for the Greek ‘K’) as ‘s’...

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