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CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 4 months ago
On the same note, we should either change the spelling to “rondevoo”, or pronounce rendezvous as “ren-dez-vouse”, this having words pronounced entirely different from the spelling just adds confusion
doctordevice@lemm.ee 4 months ago
There’s no way around that unless we start spelling things a lot more differently around the English-speaking world. We have enough trouble with the relatively minor spelling differences between UK and US English as it is, increasing that confusion is far worse than having spelling decoupled from pronunciation.
onion@feddit.de 4 months ago
Also business to bizness
cafeinux@infosec.pub 4 months ago
The word coming french has to do with it in this case. But to be fair, the french changed the spelling of “beefsteak” to “bifteck” to match the spelling with the pronunciation, so feel free to write “rondevoo”, I guess.
onion@feddit.de 4 months ago
German word for cookie/biscuit is “Keks” which is adopted from “cakes”
force@lemmy.world 4 months ago
i imagined they’d spell it more like Käks