• Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    I’m saying the presence of an f at all affecting the pronunciation of the g is laughably arbitrary as all the evidence for it has the same exact root word and isn’t enough to make it a rule.

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      6 days ago

      Ah. You’re saying both are equal because they both count for nothing and two zeros are equal.

      I disagree that “gift”, despite being a singular example, is nothing. 1 > 0.