If you put a "s" in front of the "sh" in chivalry, they turn into a "k" like in schism

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It does? How do you figure?

  That would just be a miss-spelling of chivalry.

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  • digger@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    English is like three languages stacked on top of one another while wearing a trenchcoat, pretending to be a single language.

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And also randomly welding on other languages for fun

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• sxan@midwest.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We didn’t do most of the fuckery in English. It was the Normans, while they were in charge, who forced scribes to use screwed-up French spelling for words.

  It’s always the god-damned French.

  (jk, love you France! 🩷)

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  English makes perfect sense—it’s all the other languages we keep stealing words from who can’t agree on a common spelling system.

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  • Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    As a Norwegian, I am fully aware that my ancestors helped created the English language by first invading the welsh isles, and then, three generations after invading the Francs, we invaded the isles again with romance speaking nobility for generations.

    English is a Nordic made Francish/Welsh/Germanic creole that was made popular by the still Norwegian blooded crown.

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• Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But only sometimes, of course

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  • Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Of course, wouldn’t want consistency or anything trivial like that.

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You act like language is planned (other than Esperanto).

      No language is consistent.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Schivelry? 🤨

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• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why would you add an “s” to the word “chivalry” though?

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  • unfnknblvbl@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    so we could say "schivalry" der ;)

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How do you pronounce “schedule”?

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Skedual

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  • Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I used to pronounce it “sk”, but in my new job, working with schedules with a Londoner, it is now “sh” for me. Undoing the US-ification of my English one word at a time.

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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  At least we only have one “the”

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Schlep

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• NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I fucking hate English

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