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Good job, Britain! A major contribution to the nations of the world! (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (27 children)

It's really sweet how they add unnecessary letters to feel all fancy about their little words.

"Colour"

"Humour"

Aww, so cute.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (9 children)

It gets worse- "foetus," "aeroplane."

They also think "er" is pronounced "re" like in the words "centre" and "theatre" and "s" is pronounced like "z" like in words like "apologise" and "realise."

Get it together guys. We know you came up with the language, but that's no excuse not to keep up.

[–] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Foetus is a weird one, I've never heard that before. I keep trying to pronounce it in my head but the closest I get is sounding like fajitas.

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It comes from the german Fötus

oe is ö

and english is a germanic language

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Is that right? So it's not the same as the oe in phoenix? I know in old books they used to fuse the letters.

[–] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If it’s right I’d want a source, the oe spelling in British English is as far as I was aware a let’s latinize thing in Britain.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/oe https://www.etymonline.com/word/fetus

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Would you like some chicken ~~fajitas~~ foetus

[–] dch82@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because Fetus would be pronounced with a hard e not a ee sound.

~~oe is a variant of the french œ pronounced ee~~

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