[[Awakening]]

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Originally Posted by effervescence

But that original argument (that I can't be bothered to find to quote) makes no sense - we don't pronounce the names of letters in our words, we pronounce the sound they make. Like T for example, is called "tee" but we don't say it that way - look at words like it, at, that, we pronounce the "t" sound differently to "tee".

I totally agree! We call L 'el' but we pronounce it more 'luh'

I love the English language and although it can be a tad annoying sometimes... I WILL DEFEND IT TO MY DEATH!!! The history of our beautiful language is fascinating, but I won't bore you guys with the details here....