• BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    English spelling is weird but thats not really a hard word to spell compared to many others. Epitome is either an e or an i, and I would argue a native speaker would lean heavily towards e as a first guess. There is no way that it starts with a, o, or u for example. That’s hardly “every vowel”. It’s at most 2 vowels and most people would have better than even odds if they heard epitome pronounced correctly.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      English spelling is mostly consistent other than words from other languages, especially Welsh and Gaelic. There’s the small hiccup with the aristocrats that latinized some words too.