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just found out the k in knight wasn't originally silent
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>>222183449
https://voca.ro/1essELY7xRfC
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>>222183469
it was more like ka-night
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>>222183489
https://voca.ro/14jy6t76ZzTc
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kuh nikt
im going to "uhm acksually" with this should anyone bring up the word
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>>222183499
the first part is kinda correct but it's night at the end like ka night, hard k sound ang night with a hard t sound at the end
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>>222183449
silly english kniggits
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>>222183515
yeah like that
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>>222183449
....kinaitchj....
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Always amazing how utterly incapable of processing language anglos are
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>>222183519
Ni-ght
Ni
i
i sounds like i, not ai, not ae
You realize how stupid and arbitrary english is to an esl? How the i in stupid is an i but in knight its knaeght?
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>>222183449
knigger
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>>222183717
is what you are brazilmonkey
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>>222183526
Kek
Ofc Chevaliers is the superior version anyway
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>>222183692
OkJhon Maicol Leidhy
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>>222183692
skill issue
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heh
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>>222183449
Rage bait
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>>222183449
Based Normans saving the English language
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>>222183449
Silent letters are stupid
Either write it and read it or don't do either
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>>222185731
how?
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My audio recording of the Canterbury Tales has it pronounced "Keh-nicht", literally the same as the german "nicht" but with a k sound at the start.
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knecht
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>>222183682
English is the first step to telepathy and a consequence of our ultra-high ANGLO IQ's
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>>222183489
It was kni-ght with gh being pronounced
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>>222188808
this
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>>222183449
That actually makes sense, since I presume the word is a cognate of German "Knecht"
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knigga
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>>222183449
English phonotactics are cucked, you can't say pterodactyl without omitting the p or adding a vowel



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