• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    There are quite a lot of exceptions. When I was learning Japanese I discovered that there are something like 2300 different English words that use irregular vowel sounds, and the number for Japanese words was something like 4. It has been 15 years, so I don’t remember the exact numbers, but it was crazy.