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What are the most annoying things about English? (lemmy.xylight.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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here's some I've noticed:

Why do we have articles? They're mostly useless.
Why do capital letters exist? (this is mainly an issue with the Greek and Latin alphabet though)
Why is "I" used plural for verbs?
Why are there so many inconsistent prefixes for tenses?
's is used for possessives. However, "its" is the possessive and "it's" is not.
Why do we have another set of pronouns for possessive pronouns?
Why do adjectives go before the noun compared to basically every other language?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

By the end of the late medieval period, a group of "companies" was referred to as a "column" of an army. According to Raymond Oliver, around 1500, the Spanish began explicitly reorganizing part of their army into 20 colunelas or columns of approximately 1000-1250 soldiers. Each colunela was commanded by a cabo de colunela or column head. Because they were crown units, the units were also confusingly called coronelas, and their commanders coronels. Evidence of this can be seen when Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, nicknamed "the Great Captain", divided his armies in coronelías, each led by a coronel (colonel), in 1508.

It's a mess.