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shemtay | 5 months ago

Words of Latin origin are identifiable at a glance, and homonymic collisions are thereby avoided

-- Caeser, seizer of the day

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user982|5 months ago

"Caesar" was pronounced in Latin with a hard C, which is preserved in German ("Kaiser").

magarnicle|5 months ago

And v is pronounced like w, but people look at you funny if you pronounce vice versa "wikay wersa".