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Re:“Eeny, meeny, miny, mo” and the ambiguous history of coun... by jihadjihad on Sunday December 11, 2022 @09:30AM (#33943504)
It's probably not unwritten. It's similar to how we conjugate irregular verbs like "sing/ring" or "beget". The topic in linguistics is called vowel gradation [0].

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophony

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