oce 🐆@jlai.lu to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 day agoFor French origin words like "meter" American English inverted the last letters of "metre" to better match the pronunciation. Why isn't it also the case for other similar situations like "possible"?message-squaremessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down19
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-squareFor French origin words like "meter" American English inverted the last letters of "metre" to better match the pronunciation. Why isn't it also the case for other similar situations like "possible"?oce 🐆@jlai.lu to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squarerazmlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 hours ago| There isn’t really a reason why the spelling is different. That’s just how it happened to develop. There absolutely is a reason for each of your examples, and again, it comes from French : peuple simple modèle ovale
| There isn’t really a reason why the spelling is different. That’s just how it happened to develop.
There absolutely is a reason for each of your examples, and again, it comes from French : peuple simple modèle ovale