• kamen@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Maybe start with the fact that not all words in use in English are English words.

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      10 hours ago

      Or that people in different parts of the world say/spell words differently and we inconsistently applied it:

      Kernel and Colonel were the same rank but we took the pronunciation of the first and the spelling of the latter.