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seanhunterlast Sunday at 5:45 PM1 replyview on HN

Not going to happen. No one’s ever going to successfully retrofit a logical system into English. English has even got two words (guarantee and warrantee) which are spelled and pronounced slightly different while meaning the same thing because they were borrowed from French separately at different times.


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umanwizardlast Sunday at 5:58 PM

There are loads of examples like that. Guard and ward, for example.