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[–] thebigslime 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Blame the Norman French.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

nooo Why did the Norman-French army of William, Duke of Normandy, have to Invade in 1066? It could have been so much simpler …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings

[–] thebigslime 1 points 2 days ago

A lot more Germanic, anyway. We'd have a lot more in common with our cousin tongues.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 1 points 3 days ago

Also include Gaelic languages like Irish and Scottish influencing English. I remember making a Portuguese colleague pronounce the words "bough", "lough" and "tough". It was funny and a realisation that the English language is just as non-sensical as any languages. Millennia of language mixing made any attempts to make sense of any language rules farcical but in amusing way.