Would it make sense for “rhyme” to rhyme with “time”?

Or for “through” to rhyme with “two”?

  • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    our spelling isn’t stupid, it’s just what you get when you mix latin with germanic and pepper in minor influences from a dozen other language families.

    I’m sure in a few more centuries, ryme and tyme will have convergently evolved to become false cognates.

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      2 days ago

      It also doesn’t help that spellings started to standardize at the same time the great vowel shift was happening