Timeline for Why is "great" pronounced as "grate", but spelled with "ea"?
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| Jan 8, 2015 at 17:19 | comment | added | Nicholas | You're right; that was an overstatement. No aspect of natural language that I'm aware of is perfectly consistent, but phonetic changes are relatively consistent, all things considered. | |
| Jan 8, 2015 at 12:41 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | “Changes in natural language are rarely consistent” — Actually, phonetic changes are usually consistent (within their own range of regularity). That’s why it’s puzzling when words like these show up and have no discernible explanation for their failure to follow their peers. | |
| Jul 13, 2012 at 21:40 | history | edited | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2011 at 16:39 | vote | accept | Daniel | ||
| Jul 31, 2011 at 3:24 | history | edited | Nicholas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Changed "linguistics" to "linguists" in the Seth Lerer quotation.
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| Jul 31, 2011 at 3:10 | history | answered | Nicholas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |