[ SECRET POST #2492 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2492 ⌋

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Comments

Re: That doesn't even look like a word anymore...

[fingalsanteater]

Last night I was delirious or something and I started to think about the word "worm." Like, I pronounce it "werm" or "wirm," do people even pronounce it with a o sound???? Why isn't it spelled "werm?" And now "worm" looks weird to me.

Re: That doesn't even look like a word anymore...

[(Anonymous)]

By that logic why isn't work spelled "werk" (at least outside of the internet)?

Re: That doesn't even look like a word anymore...

[fingalsanteater]

See, you get it. Why isn't it spelled "werk?"

Re: That doesn't even look like a word anymore...

[(Anonymous)]

Because vowel shift + historical spelling. But even knowing the reason doesn't make it any less irritating or make the search for exactly which of ten slightly differently-spelled homophones are the word you actually meant any easier...

Re: That doesn't even look like a word anymore...

[making_excuses]

I pronounce worm with an O sound, just like I was taught in school... Then again I was taught International English, so my take on all English words and accents is limited, same with work actually.

Or I might be misreading, or something. It is getting late

Re: That doesn't even look like a word anymore...

[dethtoll]

I've heard the o sound in, hilariously enough, the Opposing Force addon for the original Half-Life.

Re: That doesn't even look like a word anymore...

[kamino_neko]

The letters English uses for vowels make less than zero sense, because a lot of spelling was established before we had a significant pronunciation shift. It also doesn't help that we've got over a dozen vowel sounds, and only 5 letters regularly used to represent them (with two others occasionally used).

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[(Anonymous)]

I have trouble pronouncing worm. It always comes at as "warm" and my mother makes fun of me.

Re: That doesn't even look like a word anymore...

[(Anonymous)]

I just tried pronouncing "worm" with more of an "o" sound and it comes out sounding exactly the way I pronounce "warm." Then I tried pronouncing "warm" more like "arm" but with a "w" at the beginning and that just sounded silly.

Isn't "worm" also historically spelled "wyrm?"