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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a bunch of words spelt annoyingly because those bastard scholars decided they'd like to incorporate the historic roots of words, rather than the reality of words, in their spelling.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe they intended the pronunciation to change too, and for whatever reason only the spelling did.