See also the Christmas carol “Joy to the world, the Lord is come.”

“Think of it like a dice roll: You either roll or 6, or you don’t, so basically it’s 50/50.”

Brazilian Portuguese speakers change ‘t’ and ‘d’ to ‘ch’ and ‘j’ respectively before ‘i’ and ‘e’ sounds. For example, the word ‘de’ meaning ‘of/from’ is pronounced more like ‘juh’.

This happened in Japanese too, where the original “ti, tya, tyo” became “chi, cha, cho”! These are all types of palatalisation, which is one of the most common types of sound change across languages.

Dr Geoff Lindsey has a fantastic video on the related phenomenon of why the <t> in statue is pronounced like a “ch” and why English people pronounce tube as *“choob”

Yep!

Huh, maybe your instance is defederated from kbin.social? Maybe??

I still don’t fully get how it works.

The word “alone” comes from a compound of “all” + “one”.

!Etymology@kbin.social

About 85% of my reddit browsing had been on pretty niche subs, so I’m still using reddit to engage in those communities (of those that haven’t shut down). I’m trying to contribute to the equivalents here too, but the engagement is still on reddit for now.

The other 15% was just the occasional trip to /r/all to see if there was anything interesting going on there, to which the answer was usually… no. That’s pretty much been replaced by here now.