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  • Artigo

Why don't comb, tomb, and bomb rhyme? Why do they, say, and weigh rhyme? Why is rhyme not spelled "rime" as it was in the past? Become a member of the Simplified Spelling Society and fight these injustices (even if their site is running on PHP instead of ASP.NET and kind of ugly).

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  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2006
    I actually do understand that English uses loanwords from other languages. We also use things like calques and metatypy. I also understand that languages evolve. It doesn't mean I can't ask the question and maybe laugh at the inconsistency of our language.

  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2006
    After my previous posts on language where several commenters pointed out that language is an evolving...