linguistics is probably one of my favorite subjects, because it's so interesting
words are built in a way that makes sense at its conception, or straight up taken from another language literally and then through folk etymology, bracketing, and other forces, it becomes its own word
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all those silent letters in words? they probably weren't always silent, we've just dropped them to make pronunciations flow better
@ChlorideCull i saw slugcats and was like so hyped for rain world content smh
and whoever decided hedgehogs should be called "slugcats" (roughly) back in Old Norse times really needed glasses