• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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      19 hours ago

      I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it that way, and since we regularly tell children to “sound it out” to spell things I am going to go ahead and say no to adding letters personally.

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      As an American if someone said “nitch” out loud I would secretly die inside and then do my best to remember this:

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        18 hours ago

        It would make me cringe asf but similarly I would remember policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language is mostly BS and your time can be spent in much better ways.

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          policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language

          A lot of other languages besides english have institues dedicated to doing that exact thing. In spanish it’s the Royal Spanish Academy (La Real Academia Española).