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[–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months 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.

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