Spyke
piefed.social

I lol'd

The actual origin is almost as goofy. "'Wisconsin' (originally 'Meskonsing') is the English spelling of a French version of a Miami Indian name for a river"

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lemmy.zip

But the German W sounds like a V. Wein, Wissenschaftler, WeiรŸ, all start with a V sound.

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bss03
infosec.pub

A "pro" is the opposite of a "con", so what's the opposite of progress?

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bss03reply
infosec.pub

I was looking for "congress", and while that is currently controlled by Republicans, there's been some Democrat congresspersons that have worked that side of the ratchet in the past.

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Republicans drive the Overton window Ratchet or not, there wouldn't be rightward movement if they didn't exist.

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Fleur_
aussie.zone

It's called Wisconsin because when the, the she on the on my con sin

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Zkuldreply

Aneurismpost it this when see the read the with con sin

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piefed.world

โ€œSinโ€ means without in Spanish, but โ€œsynโ€ is derived from with in Greek

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I'll never understand why (mostly older) Germans keep replacing unvoiced English th with unvoiced s, when f is right there.

Logically it's because voiced th is replaced with voiced s (aka English z) in a German accent, but that actually makes some sense phonetically. Still strange how historical German speakers pretty consistently replaced the archaic voiced th with d in later forms of German while modern Germans completely ignore that when it comes to English, though.

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