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A new look at our linguistic roots (arstechnica.com)
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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If this article is interesting to you, and you speak English, I have a book to recommend:

Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme―And Other Oddities of the English Language

And a podcast with the author:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/corpse-corps-horse-and-worse/

It turns out there are a lot of good (as in explainable) reasons why the language is so fucked up and broken. I found this a fascinating read.

Edit: Also, check out The Great Vowel Shift.