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  • Not exclusive to English, but English definitely has a ton of things that just follow no pattern (even by root language, though if you know that, when it was borrowed in, and what vowel shifts it did/not have, you might have a chance).

    This did immediately make me think of “Simone Giertz” from Sweeden whose name’s pronunciation sounded like ‘yecht’ to me.















  • I’m a fan of ISO-8601 which is YYYY-MM-DD. When context is known, dropping the year on something is fine (i.e. if I post a schedule saying ‘summer 2025 schedule’, I don’t need to start every date on it with 2025). Japanese does this as well (and I think Chinese and Korean, but someone is welcome to correct me if I’m wrong there).

    If the year and month are already known, just using the day is fine as well (a calendar doesn’t write the full date in every square). Having it in that order makes sense to me.

    MM-DD-YYYY is right out, though, so I only agree with the 'muricans on the MM-DD part.