• zaphod@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Vague is french, segue is italian, hence different pronunciation, the french equivalent would probably be suite.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not pronounced in the same way as in french, why is it written the same way? I am not a native English speaker. Learning to speak English was so easy. Probably one of the easiest languages to learn. But the spelling is just the worst thing imaginable.

      They literally took the worst parts of all languages for that. There is literally no consistency at all in English spelling. When you hear a word, you have no idea how to write it.