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От : Alexander Koryagin 2:221/6 14 окт 24 08:59:10
К : Ardith Hinton 14 окт 24 09:01:02
Тема : Strange a bit
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Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 12.10.2024 19:20
AH>
AK>> How would you write it "Milne" or "Miln" if you never saw
AK>> it written.
AH>
AH>> Well, it does rhyme with "kiln"... so if I`d never seen or
AH>> heard this name before I might employ the latter until I had
AH>> time to investigate further.
AH>
AK>> It remains to me only to wonder about the English language
AK>> evolution. How on earth you put a letter into the word and
AK>> don`t pronounce this letter. ;)
AH>
AH> In some cases at least a word has been adopted from a
AH> Scandinavian or northern European language & we`ve trimmed
AH> a few inflections etc. :-))
AH>
In other words, in "Milne" and other similar cases you can put a
letter for no reason and which has no any sense. Very probably this
tricks came from French which is far ahead in this area.
Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2024
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