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> people provide post-hoc justifications for language features that often have no essential rhyme or reason. Nah. English articles make sense, they're just usually unnecessary,…

by pessimizer · Sep 20, 2026

Hindi uses the sound /ʋ/ which is a sound with elements of both v and w. This means that to many Indians, v and w are allophonic: they are heard as the same sound. An…

by zarzavat · Sep 20, 2026

And you sir, appear to have taken my view rather personally. There is nothing wrong with American English, but it is American English: English as commonly spoken in America. Jus…

by dspillett · Sep 20, 2026

"He has toothache" or "he has a toothache" are both correct (and mean exactly the same thing), but "he has the toothache" is just wrong, at least in modern English (in the sense…

by ifwinterco · Sep 20, 2026

For a native speaker in casual speech, it'll only be at most a bit slower than its expansion because English is stress-timed

by sheept · Sep 20, 2026

Australian native speaker here. Only the first "the" is a schwa for me. Must be tied to how we both pronounce the first "a" in apple differently.

by kentosi · Sep 20, 2026