It would be far more consistent with the pronunciation of other similar words.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    251·
    3 months ago

    A choir is a chorus of singers.

    It comes from the Greek root khoros.

    Although it comes from the old French word, quer, its roots are more in the present spelling.

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      By the time I got paper things going, everyone was dying to were creatures. Did make soap though, if only that could clean bite wounds enough, alas.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
    102·
    3 months ago

    I’m more partial to an entirely new alphabet,

    F/f - For

    U/u - Oopse

    U̇/u̇ - Up

    Uṙ/uṙ - Nurse

    Uı/uı - I

    UE/ᵫ - Book

    Þ/þ - Thanks

    Ð/ð - The

    O/o - Oh

    Ȯ/ȯ - On

    Ou/ou - Out

    Ouṙ/ouṙ - our

    Oṙ/oṙ - Or

    Oı/oı - Oil

    Œ/œ - “Oh” isolate

    Œṙ/œṙ - “oer the ramparts we watched”

    Œı/œı - owing vs boing

    Ṙ/ṙ - Earth

    R/r - Read

    K/k - Court

    C/c - She

    Q/q - Quick

    G/g - Go

    Gq/gq - Gwen

    Gx/gx - Ghurfa

    V/v - Of

    W/w - With

    H/h - He

    X/x - loch

    N/n - Negation

    Ny/ny - ñapa

    I/ı - Eat

    Iṙ/ıṙ - Ear

    Y/y - You

    İ/i- In

    P/p - Park

    S/ſ - So

    Z/z - Is

    T/t - To

    Tc/tc - Check

    B/b - Be

    E/e - Elder

    Ė/ė - A

    Eı/eı - Acre

    Eıṙ/eıṙ - Air

    M/m - Me

    L/l - Like

    Ŋ/ŋ - Ring

    D/d - Do

    Dj/dj - Jacket

    A/a - All

    Au/au - Awe

    Aṙ/aṙ - Are

    Aı/aı - Sky

    Aıṙ/aıṙ - Ire

    Æ/æ - And

    J/j - Genre

    Eklızıæstiku̇ſ, 34:18-21

    Humevṙ givz æz tceıritı, gᵫdz ðeı hæv teıkin buı foṙſ oṙ buı diſȯniſtı, ðeıṙ doneıcėnz aṙ ȯbſın; ðeıṙ giftſ aṙ ė ceımfėl mȯkṙı v djenṙȯſitı.

Benevolenſ diteſtſ tceıritı givin buı blu̇dı hændz; no ėmount n'oṙ vælyu given buı ſu̇tc ſṙvz t ėpız ð huıeſt.

Humevṙ teıkſ wėt litėl filz ð ſtoṙz v ð diſfoṙtcund, ðei d ð ſeım æz wu̇n hu mṙdṙz ð tcuıld bifoṙ ðeıṙ peırent'ſ uız.

Đ fᵫd v ð disfoṙtcund z ðeıṙ luıfblu̇d, ænd humevṙ difrȯdz ðem v it, ðeıṙ hændz aŗ ſteınd red; al ð seim æz eni mṙdṙṙ oṙ brut v difrint mınz.

    Levitiku̇ſ, 19:33-34

    Wen ė forinṙ livz ėmėŋgſt Y, i yoṙ kėntcrı, dn miſtcrıt ðem.  Ðiſ pṙſėn livıŋ ėmėŋgſt Y mu̇ſt bı tcrıtėd æz yoṙ on. Lu̇v æ d u̇ntu yoṙ neıbṙ æz Y wᵫd yoṙſelf.

    R fully becomes a semi vowel same as U to W or I to Y, several grammar words get Shavian style abbreviations for brevity, and where french has accents, spanish has the ñ, and german has umlauts, the expanded english vowels have single dots the way lower case i already does.