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jcranmeryesterday at 6:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

As Randall Munroe pointed out in https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/, almost nobody knows how to spell "fuchsia" correctly. I only remember it by the mnemonic of it's fuck, but with an s.


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Angosturayesterday at 8:08 PM

It’s helps if you know that the flower the fuchsia, was discovered by Dr Fuchs

crazygringoyesterday at 6:23 PM

I vote to just change the spelling to what almost everyone already thinks it is anyways.

It'll still be just as weird. But "chs" is just nonsensical. The idea that it would sound like "sh" is baffling. I mean, I know this is English spelling which is not known for its regularity, but this is just too much.

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