Would it make sense for “rhyme” to rhyme with “time”?
Or for “through” to rhyme with “two”?
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our spelling isn’t stupid, it’s just what you get when you mix latin with germanic and pepper in minor influences from a dozen other language families.
I’m sure in a few more centuries, ryme and tyme will have convergently evolved to become false cognates.
I don’t get why that’s not stupid. The result of it certainly is! Haha
It also doesn’t help that spellings started to standardize at the same time the great vowel shift was happening
