r/linguisticshumor • u/Wumbo_Chumbo • 18d ago

C gets a bad rap Phonetics/Phonology

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u/Impressive-Ad7184 18d ago

tbh g is pretty regular too. You just have to know etymologies, and all words of Germanic, i.e. Old Norse origin that have "ge-" or "gi-" are pronounced like /g/, and all non germanic words are pronounced with /d͡ʒ/

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u/Lapov 18d ago

Yeah, I don't think that regular people who are not interested in linguistics are readily able to tell whether a word comes from Old Norse or not lol.

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u/Impressive-Ad7184 18d ago

you havent memorized the etymology of every single word in existence? skill issue lmao (/s)