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I was 12 and believed chaos was ‘cha-os’ because I’d only ever seen it written.
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I still have the irrepressible urge to pronounce the s at the end of “chaos” because I more or less learnt the word through warhammer 40k. Except in French the s is silent.
But now I’ve moved to the south where the locals have a habit of pronouncing many silent s !
My poor brain is so confused…
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That’s probably closer to the original latin than the current English butchery.
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It’s “kaos” in (“classic”) latin bcs it’s copypasta from Greek.
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Oh, just in general. English is the cronenburg monster of languages and pronunciation. We will steal your words, pronounce them weirdly, use them wrongly, and claim they’ve always been ours.
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