Proposal to drop the letter J from English.
It is the letter with the biggest identity crisis.
Jelly - sounds like a soft G
Jalapeño - sounds like an H
Juanita - sounds like a W
Ja - (ok this is germanic, but still) - sounds like a Y
It really is a pointless letter.
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Matthew Conroy
in reply to David de Groot • • •I think writing my wife's name as Gennifer just looks very wrong. J is a prettier letter. YMMV.
How about we get rid of soft G's? Edj, sludj, jiraffe, gauj, ajitate.
David de Groot
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to David de Groot • •@David de Groot @Tris Kerslake not that there is really a difference between G and C, back in *my* time¹ you'd just have C and you just knew how to pronounce it!
¹ why think about the Roman empire when you can think about the Roman *kingdom*² :D
² or early republic, wikipedia tells me that G was added probably in the 3rd century BC
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Tim Richards
in reply to David de Groot • • •Within English vocab though, it's pretty consistent as to pronunciation (two of the words you mention are really Spanish words). I'd take a long hard look at C, whose sounds can be done by other existing letters:
Coat - sounds like K
Cellophane - sounds like S
Not to mention the three types of sound "ch" makes. :)
David de Groot
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