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xkcd #2907: Schwa (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Doug's cousin, the one from London, runs a Bumble love cult.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Took me a goddamn while. Goddamn English and the lack of phonetic spelling!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was a little slow too because some of those words have other possible pronunciations

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Which is why we shouldn't have phonetic spelling!