Is it “Camel-uh” or “Cam-ahl-uh”?

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    4 months ago

    It’s 'cause we took the letters from Latin, which actually had 5 vowels, and applied it to a Germanic language which, in my dialect, has 17.

    We also standardised the spelling in patches hundreds of years ago, and never updated it, but that’s a sort of separate issue.