• atocci@kbin.social
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      In case anyone else who isn’t knowledgeable in Latin is curious as to what “salmo” means and why they decided to name a fish after it… Salmo means Salmon.

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      There’s a bunch of words spelt annoyingly because those bastard scholars decided they’d like to incorporate the historic roots of words, rather than the reality of words, in their spelling.

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        Maybe they intended the pronunciation to change too, and for whatever reason only the spelling did.

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      Yeah it turns out a whole bunch of English words are spelled more like a linguistic history lesson than anything approaching a useful system of phonetics. It might as well be pictographic with letters being helpful hints at this point. I wish there could be spelling reform in the anglosphere, but it’s hard enough to get people to agree within any one of the majority English-speaking countries, let alone between them.

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    There is a logic behind this, but you kinda have to be a linguistics nerd to know.

    L and W are pretty similarly pronounced in many languages including English. Over time, this plus the fact that some might have difficulty speaking the language (still learning, have a lisp, low literacy, etc) leads to Ls becoming Ws in places.

    Long story short, L took the L sometimes in English