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positiveWHAT ,

The english language is … missing some litterary updates.
A is pronounced [ei]. E is [ii] and I is [ai]. What’s up with that.

e_t_ Admin ,

I started learning Japanese recently. It's made me realizehow sloppy English is with vowel sounds.

dot20 ,

IIUC the problem is that they updated the pronunciation without updating the spelling: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

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