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Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago

The wonders of English spelling

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The wonders of English spelling

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Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago

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English is descriptive, not proscriptive.

Surely there are no languages that base their rules on forbidding certain pronunciations?

(Proscriptive means forbidding; I assume you meant prescriptive)

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