Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWhat is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?message-squaremessage-square228fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down12
arrow-up1151arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square228fedilink
minus-squareAllerolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoAlso, “school” because my first foreign language was German German sch roughly equals English sh, so I’d always read it as “shool”. Doesn’t help that the German word for school is Schule, which is read as “shule”.
Acquire (but also “require”???)
Also, “school” because my first foreign language was German
German sch roughly equals English sh, so I’d always read it as “shool”. Doesn’t help that the German word for school is Schule, which is read as “shule”.