• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    8 hours ago

    My favourite word is pterodactyl

    It’s got a silent letter at the beginning, and then a silent o in the middle, and an invisible a, which you pronounce but don’t type, and then a silent c, before going back to some sort of sanity for the last three letters. Who decided that’s how it should be spelt?

    We already had the word Terra so why did they have to go spell this version Ptero