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Re:Google Confirms Android Attacks-No Fix for Most Samsung U... by lloeki on Monday December 08, 2025 @03:01PM (#46196869)
> But "chs" is just nonsensical. The idea that it would sound like "sh" is baffling

In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh and nobody bats an eye, I don't think it's that outlandish that someone once read it as fuch-sia, incorrectly splitting it compared to the original.

In the language French, fuchsia is unequivocally read something more like few-shia, and I'd bet that even though it comes from German Fuchs-ia (fooks-ia) English has picked it up from the French side.

If you find such a loanword weird, don't you dare try reading Japanese.

https://aethermug.com/posts/the-beautiful-dissociation-of-th...

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Re:Google Confirms Android Attacks-No Fix for Most Samsung U... by soiltype on Monday December 08, 2025 @03:47PM (#46197453)
> In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh

No, it's not. Unless you think the "n" in french is pronounced "nt".

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Re:Google Confirms Android Attacks-No Fix for Most Samsung U... by lloeki on Monday December 08, 2025 @07:28PM (#46199746)
Fine, and legit. I get what I deserve for not looking it up!

Scaramouch and crochet though.

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Re:Google Confirms Android Attacks-No Fix for Most Samsung U... by crazygringo on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @11:43AM (#46207104)
Sure, and cache and cloche.

But the question here is chs, not ch. Which though rare, is widely understood to be a kind of guttural sound or "k" sound followed by an s. In -uchs or -ichs coming from German.

Not the "sh" sound in fuchsia.

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Re:Google Confirms Android Attacks-No Fix for Most Samsung U... by majoe on Monday December 08, 2025 @04:42PM (#46198041)
Damn, I always thought Fuchsia is just a colour, but today I learned

  - Fuchsia is a flower
  - which is named after a German botanist (Leonhart Fuchs)
  - Fuchsia in English is pronounced completely different than in German. 
  - Google is surprisingly bad at naming their products
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Re:Google Confirms Android Attacks-No Fix for Most Samsung U... by crazygringo on Monday December 08, 2025 @05:31PM (#46198547)
> In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh

It's not, though.

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