razm@sh.itjust.workstoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•For French origin words like "meter" American English inverted the last letters of "metre" to better match the pronunciation. Why isn't it also the case for other similar situations like "possible"?
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4 days ago| There isn’t really a reason why the spelling is different. That’s just how it happened to develop.
There absolutely is a reason for each of your examples, and again, it comes from French : peuple simple modèle ovale
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