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Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
99% Invisible
The Long E Sound in English
The long e sound is particularly confounding. After the norman invasion of ten 66, anything official was in french. English was a thing you did in your daily life, but it wasn't considered a language of philosophy and art or high pursuits. But that did start to change. And when it did, there was a sense that we got to help fix this language upi. We need to make it less you know, embarrassing. That took some conscious attention.
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