• Aljernon@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    To be fair, usually when a language adopts a new word from other languages, they start spelling it in there own fashion. English is unusual in that they use the original spelling.

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      2 months ago

      French in particular gets a lot of words with original spellings because it used to be the language of the courts in England.

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      2 months ago

      My favorite are British English, who can’t stand the French to the point that they say things like filet with a hard T.

      This also reminds me of a recent trip to Colorado, where they do the same thing with Spanish words, anglicizing all of them. Salida (sa-LIE-da) is the first one that’s coming to mind, but I know there are other cities in Colorado that are clearly Spanish words that they’ve just abused.