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To: sodpoodle
Do twins ever realize that one of them is unplanned?
How much more worse is it for triplets, quadruplets ad nauseam?
Which letter is silent in the word "Scent," the S or the C?
Yay, morphology/etymology/homophony games. The addition of the letter “c” was most likely due to this word being a homophone of “sent”, the past tense of “send” because the word it was borrowed from did not have the “c” in the spelling, unlike science (from Latin scientia, where the “c” was originally pronounced like a k).

In the Anglo-Saxon language (aka Old English), the sc digraph was pronounced like present-day English sh, just as it is in modern Italian when it appears before the vowels e and i.
Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn't it be called double V?
It’s called double-V in French. In German, it’s just called V. And in Latin, the character V was either pronounced U or W, hence two of them ending up as “double-U” in English (since the pronunciation of U and V was transposed at one time, i.e. U was pronounced V and vice versa).
Many animals probably need glasses, but nobody knows it.
The animal itself knows. But it likely does not care, since its senses of smell and hearing is what it relies on more. (Ask a mole.)
14 posted on 08/02/2017 10:56:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

And very few dogs become ophthalmologists, so it would be hard to find a doctor.


26 posted on 08/02/2017 1:51:05 PM PDT by firebrand
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